Re: Use of any interface designer - is it worthy?

[Paul Davis <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu>]

John Spray wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 04:06 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
>  
>
> > I tend to consider most of my creations less than visually stunning.
> >    
>
> Perhaps there's a correlation -- when you're doing your interface code
> by hand getting things like spacing and borders right can seem more
> trouble than it's worth, and it may never get done.
>  
I do this sort of stuff in Glade.  Its great for trying lots of 
different arrangements and getting paddings and margins down.  I just 
don't use the generated XML interface.

Its not the spacing and coding things that gets me with interfaces.  I 
have pretty good command over layouts and do fairly well with making it 
look like what I want. I just don't have the interface design talent.

So while my stuff doesn't look bad cause its all shoved into a container 
haphazardly, its not something thats going to ever win the next design 
award, or become the next "Obviously intuitive extension to current 
interfaces" ie Expose or that cool iPod interface thing.

> Then we come to the question of whether having a pretty interface is
> worthwhile, of course.  I must confess to living my life strictly by the
> holy Gnome HIG.
>
>  
Gnome HIG?

> Anyway, I use glade for everything except one small project.  On that
> project, I really regretted not using it.
>
>  
Then again, had I started off with the XML interfaces, I might not have 
ever gotten into coding my own interfaces.  I started out with Gtk-- 
generated code and worked with that for a long time.  Then figured out 
it wasn't as good as I needed, so I started writing my own.  I spent a 
brief time working with XML files, but I found that keeping external 
dependancies for my binaries to be a bit of an annoyance.  And in all 
reality, after you go through all the code to get widgets out of the xml 
file and connect signals, you might as well code your own.

> John
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