I was at a conference whre some Google employees showed Chrome and explained some of the ideas behind it.
One idea was "No UI is good UI" making Chrome very simple to use for newbies but allowing some advanced features for those who want it. For example the idea of searching for things typed in the place where the address should be and non intrusive pop-ups. Eg. when you are on a page that is not in your default language an extra line appears at the top of the screen offering you to translate the page. Then I was also talking to someone who runs a company that creates and sells a derivative of Ubuntu. One of the things they offer is a small window where the person can type in what she wants to use and the application that provides that service will be launched. For example if she wants to "chat" and types that in the window an application that is used for chatting is launched. So I am thinking if we could adopt these ideas in Padre? The search window is basically and extended version of the quick menu find united with the open resource window and if I think more about it then a one row command line window. I wonder what do you think about this and if we could run an experiment adding such window to the default layout of the IDE? regards Gabor _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
