Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-12 Thread Jonas Wulff
I think the point is that if the choice between portability to win and performance has to be made, the emphasis will be on performance instead of portability. Or the other way round: Let this be a good linux software (and whoever wants to can port it, anyway) instead of designing it to be a so-so

Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-12 Thread Odin Omdal Hørthe
On Feb 12, 2008 5:59 AM, Martin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It will need to be a case of, you want Cin3 to talk to MSWin, you cut the > code. Or if you want Cin3 to talk to some API, you write the code. The Cin3 > umbrella is going to cover lots of sub-projects; I don't see why they cannot

Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-11 Thread Martin Ellison
It will need to be a case of, you want Cin3 to talk to MSWin, you cut the code. Or if you want Cin3 to talk to some API, you write the code. The Cin3 umbrella is going to cover lots of sub-projects; I don't see why they cannot include Cin3-on-MSWin. Cin3 should be free/open in the standard distrib

Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-11 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Martin Ellison schreef: > * I was thinking specifically of Blender. Is there going to be any > way of getting Cin3 and Blender working together? Wasn't there this video rendering thing that used Blender to render transitions? GVFX (GNU Vid

Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-11 Thread Florian Cramer
On Tuesday, February 12 2008, 00:26 (+0800), Martin Ellison wrote: > * I don't see any reason why Cin3 could not run on MSWin. If the code is > portable, it should be possible to compile it anywhere. It would imply implementing support for Windows-specific audio + accelerated video APIs

Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-11 Thread Burkhard Plaum
Hi, Martin Ellison schrieb: * I don't see any reason why Cin3 could not run on MSWin. If the code is portable, it should be possible to compile it anywhere. It may be necessary to ifdef out some features though. As soon as you do things like sockets, mmap, multithread etc, you

Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-11 Thread Martin Ellison
- I was thinking specifically of Blender. Is there going to be any way of getting Cin3 and Blender working together? - I don't see any reason why Cin3 could not run on MSWin. If the code is portable, it should be possible to compile it anywhere. It may be necessary to ifdef out some

Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-11 Thread IL'dar AKHmetgaleev
На Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:01:31 -0400 "Leo germani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> записано: > I was thinking of an ideia the other day... of a multi-level time > line... something similar to the Flash Time line in a way... > > this means you can paste a whole project in you time line and it will > appear as i

Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-11 Thread Odin Omdal Hørthe
On Feb 11, 2008 7:42 AM, Martin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some sort of OLE style linkage between prgrams. This is probably too hard, > at least if we want Cin3 to run on MSWin as well. Win? No, we don't want that. Anyway, I don't think it will be hard for other programs to link into Th

Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-10 Thread Martin Ellison
Well, that leads to the question of some of the nodes in the graph being outside Cin3. I had envisaged Cin3 having a plug-in architecture, but that implies that the plugins would be written to the Cin3 plugin API (or one of the Cin3 plugin APIs; it seems that there will be several). But that implie

Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-10 Thread Leo germani
I was thinking of an ideia the other day... of a multi-level time line... something similar to the Flash Time line in a way... this means you can paste a whole project in you time line and it will appear as if it was one clip. Double click on it and you edit its project, that may contain another p

Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-10 Thread Claude Jones
On Sat February 9 2008, Richard Spindler wrote: > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/why_cant_free_software_guis_be_ >empowering_instead_limiting > > Of course not without the secret intention of pushing the Idea of a > nodal UI in his GUI suggestion towards the end of that article, he's

Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-09 Thread Martin Ahnelöv
lör 2008-02-09 klockan 14:45 +0100 skrev Richard Spindler: > Nice Article to keep the UI Discussion a little going: ;-) > > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/why_cant_free_software_guis_be_empowering_instead_limiting > > Of course not without the secret intention of pushing the Idea of

[CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-09 Thread Richard Spindler
Nice Article to keep the UI Discussion a little going: ;-) http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/why_cant_free_software_guis_be_empowering_instead_limiting Of course not without the secret intention of pushing the Idea of a nodal UI. ;-) And another one: http://www.lacquer.fi/blog/?cat=3