Re: OT: GUI [was:]Ann: TeXCAD 4.1

[Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>]

On 2004-03-18, Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
>
> Well, irrelevant..., the OP had mentioned or implied, to me at least,
> that low level layers (below Gtk) as well as the high level layers 
> invite criticism that can be well expressed in typical "Ada" terms.

What do you mean? I really don't understand what you are saying.

You said: That one should bring GtkAda up to the level of Mac OS X.

Then you go on comparing apples and oranges.

> Thinking about a new interface it is an opportunity to think differently
> about interfaces, taking human interface research into consideration.
> Interestingly this maps to programming language syntax design decisions,
> as presented in a collection of articles entitled "The Psychology of
> Programming" (I don't have it here, but I can provide details when
> I'm at home.)

Please I don't want yet another debate about Human interface. Rather
read : http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/

and give me a link to apples whitepaper on this.

> (For example, is a dashboard oriented panel design, as is more or
> less hardcoded in (the spirit of) Gtk(Ada) really an adequate choice
> when in comes to applications that have nothing to do with engineering,
> or with engineers?)

What do you mean?

> In addition, the new Gtk has adopted an XML based mechanism to
> describe certain interface components. This is another level of 
> abstraction. Dr. Leif might be pleased to hear about this ;-)

Are you talking about libglade?


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