Hi!
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 05:14:33PM +0000, Nicolas Roard wrote:
> Well, take it the other way: without "the attitude" you won't build
> good user interface anyway !! ;-)
True. Good UIs are hard to build when the application model doesn't
match the expectations of the user, so it's good if thoughts about
usability start at an early stage. (Which is the case in most Etoile
projects.)
> I was just pointing that we have quite a few UI-nazi around to
> criticize our UI, so I think we can do well :-)
Hehe. :-D
> Beside, most of us use or did use NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/MacOSX, and I
> think you get used to good UI ..
Hm. Maybe we're all above the average in "UI taste". But still, there
will be problems that you can't foresee. Let's take the OgreKit find
panel for example; before I changed it yesterday, it didn't have a key
view loop and it didn't start a search when you hit enter in the find
field, which both particularly annoyed me. The point is, when you
usually don't use features like tabbing between views, you won't spot
these missing features when informally evaluating your user interface.
I don't want to say we should do a formal evaluation like using
checklists for it, but you'll need at least two or three others
("UI-nazis") to look over your UI and complain about inconveniences.
> >Does NSDataLink only work for things that provide a NSImage, or is it
> >also possible to use it for other data types? At the moment, it's a bit
> >hard for me to imagine another scenario apart from DTP, where it might
> >be used. Is there some good information page about it on the internet?
>
> It works with the pasteboard ! so you can put a bunch of datatype; the
> receiver application will simply get the datatype it knows about. If
> it only knows about NSImage, so be it; but nothing prevent you to have
> more complex datatypes.
Wow, cool! :-) I'm just getting completely excited about a DTP
application that automatically updates the current news from Grr into
its text boxes. Amazing stuff! :-) I hope we can get that to work. :-)
-Guenther
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