On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:19 PM, loretta<[email protected]> wrote: >> We all know the rule that we don't argue about preferences. In fact, > > Good habit. So, sorry about that.
Actually, we can argue whether arguing about preferences is a good or bad thing. I for one believe preferences are "bad", and sensible defaults are good. See http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.html Section "The Question of Preferences" > I played around a bit and saw, that moving clones is really hard in > large trees: I couldn't get away just by cloning and then doing Shift- > Ctrl-x / v to move the clone, because this converts the clone int a > simple copy of the respective node (as it always did). It is. This is the real usability problem. "Paste retaining clones" should be the default if chose "cut" instead of "copy". Implementing drag-drop is the wrong fix for this particular problem. > As for the Tk interface: I didn't know that tkinter is to be ported to > Python3 yet. I even don't know about the Python team's plans in this tkinter is, pmw isn't. > stick with Qt for now. Anyway, are there any figures about how many > Leo users use Tk and how many use Qt? Right now, there being no official released version with Qt, Tk is probaby more popular. Also, Ubuntu's current LTS version doesn't have the required version of Qt (Intrepid is the oldest properly supported Ubuntu version). Going forward (say, 6 months from now), I'd expect Tk to be used for "specialist" purposes only (people who have serious investment in some Tk-only plugins, for example). Certainly, it's highly unlikely that a newcomer would choose Tk ui over the qt one; and specifically on Linux, Tk ui is bad enough to make people unlikely to invest the time in getting familiar with Leo in the first place. -- Ville M. Vainio http://tinyurl.com/vainio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
