[Glade-devel] Integrated ui patch

[vgeddes at metroweb.co.za (Vincent Geddes)]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 08:18 -0500, Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
> It's not a good design, it's monkying gazpacho. Anyway,
> I just wanted to make sure that you know about those "10%".
> If majority loves single window, then you of course go single
> window.
Yes, it is "monkeying" gazpacho (if you say so) and /all/ the other gui
designers that have a single window design. I don't know if you have
noticed, but there aren't exactly many gui designers that have a
multiple window design. I can't think of any myself (besides glade).
KDesigner, Visual Studio, Netbeans, Gazpacho, and Gideon are just
prominent examples of gui designers that use the single window design. I
think that says something about the popularity (and hence usability) of
the single-window design. 

Right now that 10% is you alone. No one else has come to us to voice
dissatisfaction with the new design. Hopefully, this thread will
encourage others to come forward to voice their concerns.


> But I wonder, have someone actually tried to work with such
> UI? I did, in gazpacho, and it sucked. You can't use glade
> right now because of fancy bugs with click-does-nothing.
> So people "commented" on how it looks, not on the actual
> interface.
Yes, thats right, we are now in unstable development. If you want to use
glade3 for production use, please use the glade3 3.0.2 stable
release :).


> Heh, "excellent". Well, let's call gdl excellent or even usable. Still,
> it has nothing to with glade, right? So, we can snip last two
> paragraphs, and stick to 10% thing.
I was mentioning it as a possible solution to your valid concerns about
the shortcomings of the new ui (namely the inflexibility of the tree and
props editor).


regards

Vincent