[CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Brian Vidal castillo
Hi there, we are starting a huge project in order to take advantage of some applications UI re-design: we want to make a huge UI redesign in the best opensource design, authoring and media creation/edition software. The need to do this is essentially, to provide a cross UI between all major

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Yuval Levy
Brian Vidal castillo wrote: As a starting point https://launchpad.net/linux+design+studio Programming Languages: Vala, C, C++ why Vala and not Python? Yuv ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Yuval Levy wrote: Brian Vidal castillo wrote: As a starting point https://launchpad.net/linux+design+studio Programming Languages: Vala, C, C++ why Vala and not Python? Why Python and not Ruby? Why Ruby and not Lua? The programming language choice at this

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Yuval Levy
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Why Python and not Ruby? Why Ruby and not Lua? The programming language choice at this stage should be out of scope. And the choice of widgets? AFAIK Vala is strictly bound to GTK+. What about Qt? wxWidgets? The next release of Blender has already a Python GUI.

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
2009/8/18 Brian Vidal castillo wrote: Hi there, we are starting a huge project in order to take advantage of some applications UI re-design: we want to make a huge UI redesign in the best opensource design, authoring and media creation/edition software. So you started the project finally :)

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
2009/8/18 Brian Vidal castillo wrote: 1. GIMP's UI is a work in progress. 2. Scribus's UI is a work in progress. 3. Inkscape's UI is more or less settled, but some changes are planned. maybe, but the idea is create a Team to work on those changes and help the process to get smoother.

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Cyrille Berger
On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: 2009/8/18 Brian Vidal castillo wrote: maybe, but the idea is create a Team to work on those changes and help the process to get smoother. Thought so :) Also, help to settle down apps that doesn't even know wich ui implement.

Re: [CREATE] OpenRaster fallbacks (proposal/RFC)

2009-08-18 Thread Cyrille Berger
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Martin Renold wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 01:36:35PM +0100, Øyvind Kolås wrote: [...] or perhaps even make the projection/ fallback/cache rendering reference just an attribute of the filter/stack/layer. I think the fallback/cache will need own attributes, like

Re: [CREATE] OpenRaster fallbacks (proposal/RFC)

2009-08-18 Thread Cyrille Berger
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Martin Renold wrote: New pixel formats: As it is now, we need to use different attributes to save the legacy and the new file format side-by-side in a compatible way. For example: layer src=data/layer001.png src_16bit=data/layer001_16bit.png/ and also for

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Cyrille Berger wrote: Wouldn't it be more interesting to focus this project on writing a HIG ? And leave implementation details out ? I'm not quite sure. GNOME's HIG needs updates and KDE has its own HIG, and some of the apps are crossplatform. So a HIG for

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Sven Langkamp
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Yuval Levy wrote: Brian Vidal castillo wrote: As a starting point https://launchpad.net/linux+design+studio Programming Languages: Vala, C, C++ why Vala and

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Brian Vidal castillo
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:15:24 -0400, Sven Langkamp sven.langk...@gmail.com wrote: You can't choose a programming language as this isn't really a software project. You can specify a HIG, but you can't code a UI and put them on top of all these projects. Projects that depend on the same

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
2009/8/18 Brian Vidal castillo dae...@gmail.com: Maybe... but one of the long-term goals is to makes them use the same toolkit. I don't think this will ever happen :) There are amazing features on QT and on wxWidgets, also on GTK+, but maybe a common toolkit would be simpler to develop and

[CREATE] (no subject)

2009-08-18 Thread Brian Vidal castillo
what about working with the GIMP UI redesign and take advantage from this process and reflect this on Inkscape or Scribus? this can be achieved I think... Somebody said Inkscape and Scribus are working on the UI, well GIMP has a big movement on this and we can use that. -- Using Opera's

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Craig
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: 2009/8/18 Brian Vidal castillo dae...@gmail.com: Maybe... but one of the long-term goals is to makes them use the same toolkit. I don't think this will ever happen :) There are amazing features on QT and on wxWidgets, also on GTK+, but maybe a common toolkit

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Craig wrote: Erm.. answer = No at this point from the Scribus team. Happy with Qt, thanks. Of course, if GTK+ should be common denominator in LDS, one could always try to give a kiss of life to Passepartout once again. Alexandre

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Sven Langkamp
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Craig wrote: Erm.. answer = No at this point from the Scribus team. Happy with Qt, thanks. Of course, if GTK+ should be common denominator in LDS, one could

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread a.l.e
hi Maybe... but one of the long-term goals is to makes them use the same toolkit. Researching first which covers the needs. It's not very smart to have a Design Studio collaborating between thems and have a different toolkit. i don't think that a common user interface should not require the

Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

2009-08-18 Thread Craig
Sven Langkamp wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com mailto:alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Craig wrote: Erm.. answer = No at this point from the Scribus team. Happy with Qt,