On 10/7/11 7:29 PM, "ext Till Oliver Knoll" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Oh, but you're forgetting that the UIs of the future will be like that >>because >> customers are demanding it and others are driving it! So you want to >>keep your >> UIs as they are... Let's say you had kept them as they were 14 years >>ago. >> >> Here's what it looked like: >> http://www.linux-kongress.org/1997/kde_desktop.gif >> >> So let me summarise: we cannot stop innovating. > >No we can't. But also remember that the trend in UI is now in the >OTHER direction again, towards SIMPLER and MINIMALISTIC ways of >drawing stuff, see Mac OS X! The time of "Hey, KDE can draw wobbly >wobbly dialogs (but requires OpenGL support to do so)" is long time >over!
You haven't looked close enough. Much of the simplicity is achieved through small and animations that guide the eye. They are very subtle but in many places. Implementing all of this in QWidgets is close to impossible. Have you looked ad QMainWindow and how it animates certain transitions when you try to insert a dock window? A great feature, but it required a man year to implement properly. Animating things properly in the item views is something we tried, but simply couldn't do. We've reached the limits of QWidgets. > >And Qt just performs fine (with QWidgets!) on todays hardware, so why >worry? > >> ... >> You've got it. But it will stay as it is. Look at that link above >>again. Now >> place yourself in your 2016 shoes and look at your UIs of today. > >There will be more "individually looking apps" and I will still want >to kick those people's butt for making apps which look different than >my Windows or Mac or KDE? So you're basically saying you know how a good UI should look like and everybody else is wrong? Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
