David Chisnall wrote:
On 4 Apr 2007, at 11:51, Isaiah Beerbower wrote:
It could be made friendly. Thats what the extra plist in the services
bundle is for ... to show the preferences editor how to make it friendly.
There are two philosophies on UI implementation. One says that you
should get a competent designer to lay out all of your UI components and
then load that. The other says that you should describe their meaning
and relations and let an algorithm do it. The first way is the
OpenStep/GNUstep/Cocoa way, and in my experience gives far superior
results. You seem to be advocating the second in the case of preference
panes.
I'm not though! :)
Could you clarify:
1) Why you feel algorithmically generated UIs will be superior to
manually designed nibs, and
It isn't a algorithmically generated UI; it's a document, probably
represented in an outline view.
2) Why you think having two different ways of creating UIs will make
development easier?
This is no different than any other document based service...
Perhaps my meaning was not fully understood. I could implement it on my
own time and then give a demonstration...
In any case, it is just an idea ... nothing to get TO worked up about.
Isaiah Beerbower
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