Re: The GNUstep code challenge.

[Markus Hitter]

Am 16.05.2006 um 03:27 schrieb Vaisburd, Haim:

> There are too many windows and dialog boxes to my mind.
> I admit that I have only tried simple operations required
> for photo editing, like crop, rescale, format change, etc.,
> but for those simple operations the flow is not smooth at all.
> [...] Ideally I want to get a full control
> right from the main window - the main window being the only window.

Where is the fundamental difference wether controls are drawn into a  
separated panel window or wether they are drawn right into the main  
window?

IMHO, they are interchangeable. Toolbars, Shelfs, Drawers presenting  
intermediate technologies. How about panels which can be docked at  
the inside or outside of the window border, becoming transparent as  
needed?


> There is a promising tour for new iPhoto (I do not have a Mac and  
> can't
> tell you how good/bad the iPhoto really is) at
> http://www.apple.com/ilife/quicktour/iphoto/ ,
> they show semi-transparect controls on top of the image they are
> editing.

The paradigm is still the same: have few, intuitive, flexible  
controls. Seashore appears to follow this goal better than GIMP it's  
self.


Markus

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