Well, that drop-down could be moved away from the upper-right
pretty easily. If that's your only objection ...
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McCollister, Mike wrote in message <36629@palm-dev-forum>...
>
>Brian,
>
>If X-Master did not have sets then I would agree with you and have Andreas
>make it a Palm Preference application. However, since the sets are
available
>at the upper right of the screen then it complicates the UI a bit. Any
other
>thoughts?
>
>Mike McCollister
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Mathis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:31 AM
>> To: Palm Developer Forum
>> Subject: Re: X-Master: free successor to Hackmaster
>>
>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Linke, Andreas wrote:
>> > > although it is not hard to rewrite HackMaster (really), we really
>> > > should not be introducing new apps that do similar things (yet
>> > > do different things too)..
>> >
>> > Aaron, what's wrong with X-Master? It's freeware, and I'll send out the
>> > sources to anyone who is interested. IMHO, there's really no need
>> (except a
>> > big ego:-) to write yet another trap management application...
>>
>> Don't underestimate the "big ego" thing. That's exactly why Linux is in
>> the sorry state uit's in now. Everyone starts up a new project or
>> distribution instead of putting effort into a currently existing project.
>> All for ego.
>>
>> > I believe X-Master is already much more stable than EVPlugbase and
>> > Hackmaster. If someone finds a bug, just let me know and I'll try to
fix
>> it.
>> >
>> > Now if only someone could come up with a really good name...
>>
>> I thought there was already a pretty good discussion here about the name.
>> I think the goal for a name needs to be something that's simple and
>> descriptive, not something that sounds cool or has cool letters in it for
>> the sake of having cool letters ([XQZ] = cool letters). "Datebook" is a
>> good example.
>>
>> As for a name, what does it do? It manages traps. "TrapManager"
>>
>> Want to insulate the user from the dirty details of the system (what's a
>> trap?): "ExtensionManager". Dave mentioned though that there's some
>> mythical thing they already call extensions, so we might want to avoid
>> this on. This is what Apple calls it though, afaik.
>>
>> "ModManager"?
>>
>> Also, maybe this should be a control panel, not another app.
>>
>>
>> [...]
>> > Andreas
>> > http://linkesoft.com/english/xmaster/
>>
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