On 8/01/2016 4:40am, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
> The argument in favor of a fresh UI toolkit is that our Swing app feels
> stale, and this becomes a serious mental barrier to adoption. I have no idea
> how much JavaFX would help to modernize it, but overall it seems like a logic
> *upgrade* path.
Perhaps just replacing all the icons with new ones (from one of the many good
libraries), and adding @2x versions (Retina) of those icons would go about 80%
of the way to making it feel modern.
How do you like:
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
The license is SIL and in category B
http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b
If everyone is happy with that I'll go and pick out a set of icons for the
major features.
> Next I'd like to see the modeling process to be less tedious, with the tool
> better hiding modeling complexities. Currently we are attacking that
> indirectly by doing an end run around manual modeling [1] by beefing up
> reverse engineering.
Can you quantify which bits are tedious? To be honest, its been ages since I've
created a large model from scratch.
Ari
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