On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Ximin Luo <xl269 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> from a project co-ordination point of view, you're going to need to bring in >> someone specially (GSoC?) to do a UI overhaul. > > My wife, who is a UI designer, has volunteered (she is "pupok" on FreeNode). > >> it's not going to work well if >> you expect toad to do it when there are many other things in the freenet core >> to be getting on with, and especially if he isn't familiar with the proposed >> UI >> changes, isn't too keen on the design anyway, and is going to have to take >> time >> away from other things to design a code framework for it. > > I don't expect Toad to do the UI, although he may need to help with > wiring it into the codebase.
I think having professional UI design help on Freenet would be wonderful. It's obviously something most of us are bad at. Is she going to be available to support the code in the longer term? Personally, I think that's a bigger concern than getting it written in the first place. Obviously I can't speak for others, but I suspect a lot of the resistance to this comes because you seem to be presenting it as a fait accompli, not something open for discussion. What sort of input does she need from us? I know you've asked for some in the past, but it's been a while. Personally, I'm happy to offer some input, but would find it easiest if she has specific questions of limited scope, and could then follow up with more, rather than starting with a large and open-ended request. Evan Daniel
