[Glade-devel] Integrated ui patch

[tvb at gnome.org (Tristan Van Berkom)]

Vincent Geddes wrote:

> 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.
>  
Just to make this clear - we are trying to redisign the GUI to make
it better and more usable - we are not doing this as an excersize
to conform to every other similar app on the planet just for
conformity's sake - lets be open minded, value consistancy where
it counts - and be innovative at the same time.

Cheers,
                        -Tristan