This whole asthetic thing is a can of worms.
For me its simple - I like nice things - I will spend more money to get styling that I like - I have a (now aging admitedly) Palm V rather than a Palm III.
But you are right functionality is key and your comments add to that. I would add one thing - windows should remember where you put them last I think. A lot of other things work that way.
cheers
mark
-----Original Message----- From: martin pi [mailto:pi@attacksyour.net] Sent: 24 April 2002 10:16 To: mark Cc: 'Yves Degoyon'; 'Pure Data' Subject: RE: [PD] pd-gui wishlist
sorry to get so boldly into the way, yet this pseudo_3d madnesses that grasp all "modern" user interfaces are not the right way in my opinion. keep it plain and logical. the main functionallity needed (at the gui part) are:
top/bottom/left/wherever (but always at the same place and not in the center of the screen)
what makes pd so percepted unstable in the use is the slight delay in reaction in my opinion. but that is caused by the network-seperated approach of gui & "server".
the foretellable placement of the main window would be very nice at the development stage of externals - currently im am always make-ing and the firing up pd and the closing [ and sometimes finding ] of the main window gets on my nerves.
after all: why should a button on my 2d screen be 2,5d like in pseudo 3d?
martin
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But I think, it's also "very very platform dependent". For example on Linux/XWindows you have some window managers that remember the last position, some don't and some offer you a lot of different placement options. For example Blackbox has:
Smart Placment (Rows) Smart Placment (Columns) Cascade Placement Left to Right Right to Left Top to Bottom Bottom to Top
And others let you make snapshots of window positions and whatnot. I'm not sure, if I want PD to override my window manager preferences
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