On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:39:11 +0100, Hannu Vuolasaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:44:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Theoretically a nice Idea, but remember that a NLE can have very
complex, custom Widgets, like the Timeline and Previews, these should
ideally be written only once, putting together some buttons and basic
widgets in different Toolkits is never a Problem.
Just one stupid question. What is wrong with current GUI?
For you an me? Very little. But please realise how irrelevant that is.
Potential users and developers think Cinelerra is "stuck in the 90s"
because of its GUI. Users believe the whole application must suck at
least as much as its GUI. Developers don't think it's worthwhile to
learn about a GUI toolkit that is only used for _one_ application.
Bottom line: To many users and coders, Cinelerra doesn't LOOK worthy
of their time and effort.
To explain why this is so, and why it is futile to try and tell the
rest of the world that it ain't necessarily so, I will refer to
Joel Spolsky's article "The Iceberg Secret" (Joel on Software,
February 2002):
'Important Corollary One. If you show a nonprogrammer a screen which has a
user interface that is 90% worse, they will think that the program is 90%
worse.
...
What happened during the demo? The clients spent the entire meeting
griping about the graphical appearance of the screen. They weren't even
talking about the UI. Just the graphical appearance. "It just doesn't look
slick," complained their project manager. That's all they could think
about. We couldn't get them to think about the actual functionality.
Obviously fixing the graphic design took about one day. It was almost as
if they thought they had hired painters.'
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000356.html
--
Herman Robak
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