RE: Ease of use (was Call for constructive user criticism.)

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Actually, if libglade were to be used for all programs, you would make your
2 interfaces with glade (much easier then hand coding by the way) and have a
simple if else statement in your main function to switch between the two (or
more) glade intervaces. Using libglade would make the program 100x smaller,
more flexable, and easier to code.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mawarkus@t-online.de [mailto:mawarkus@t-online.de]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 2:10 PM
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Ease of use (was Call for constructive user criticism.)
> 
> 
> +++ Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 10:33:20AM -0700 +++
> Fox, Kevin M e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> > I think a solution would be to use 2 skins for each 
> program. A simple skin
> > and a complex one. There can be an option in gnomecc to set 
> the user into
> > guru mode. LibGlade can help do this. The user would have a simple
> > noncomplex "toaster like" program if they aren't in guru 
> mode, and us guru's
> > get all the advanced features.
> 
> That sure sounds great, but it would be a huge effort. The kind of
> suggestion Jim only wants to accept if some people come along with it,
> willing to code it. And I think Jim is right at that.
> 
> It would be easier to change the individual applications so they
> feature user interfaces which are both efficient and easy to use
> instead of doing huge rewrites separating front-end from back-end and
> splitting all the features up into two front-ends for each program.
> 
> mawa
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