On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
>> I think the first thing we have to keep in mind is that while well-known
>> use cases of GTK+ are in the domain of "desktop applications" there
>> is a great deal of use cases that
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:16:53PM +0100, Stefan Sauer wrote:
> On 01/09/2012 04:29 PM, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> > Who gets to decide how an application looks?
> >
> > This question is aimed at theming and the question of graphic
> > design[1] and not at intersection design[2]. The way I see it, th
On 01/09/2012 04:29 PM, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Here's another discussion point I want people to think about before
> the hackfest. This time it's not so much about API in a direct way but
> more about a guiding principles for the kinds of APIs we want to
> provide. The short question is th
On 01/09/2012 06:25 PM, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> Keep in mind that those kiosk or other embedded applications
> themselves are the platform though. So for those cases, the
> distinction does not matter. It doesn't even matter if you have
> multiple applications if you still control the design of all
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Jan Jokela wrote:
> Take iPhoto, Calendar and similar apps, even the ones not developed by
> Apple.
> Many of them style widgets to a certain look and feel and most have a bunch
> of custom widgets. And I see this as essential for making great
> applications even
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Jan Jokela wrote:
>
> >. But for the App to
> > be cohesive with the platform, the theme (the design and usability
> features
> > of widgets) must remain identical.
>
> this notion of cohesiveness with the platfor
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Jan Jokela wrote:
>. But for the App to
> be cohesive with the platform, the theme (the design and usability features
> of widgets) must remain identical.
this notion of cohesiveness with the platform doesn't seem to bother
the developers of most pro-apps. Ableton
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jan Jokela wrote:
>
> > The way I see this issue is that OS X applications are all across the
> board
> > much superior to GTK+ Apps both from an aesthetic and user experience
> point
> > of view. And any solution
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jan Jokela wrote:
> The way I see this issue is that OS X applications are all across the board
> much superior to GTK+ Apps both from an aesthetic and user experience point
> of view. And any solution that doesn't really solve the problem is a bad
> solution.
2 q
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jan Jokela wrote:
> > Hej, great read!
> >
> > Regarding your point on Application design & theming for different form
> > factors, I think there isn't any logic in even attempting the same user
> > interface
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jan Jokela wrote:
> Hej, great read!
>
> Regarding your point on Application design & theming for different form
> factors, I think there isn't any logic in even attempting the same user
> interface design (not talking about theming here) for lets say, desktops and
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> I think the first thing we have to keep in mind is that while well-known
> use cases of GTK+ are in the domain of "desktop applications" there
> is a great deal of use cases that are not tied in to desktop environments
> (be they, mobile
Hej, great read!
Regarding your point on Application design & theming for different form
factors, I think there isn't any logic in even attempting the same user
interface design (not talking about theming here) for lets say, desktops
and tablets. And on the topic of mobile devices, the user experi
Very interesting topic, I'm going to throw some responses out there
without thinking too hard, if the thread gets very interesting we can
build from there ;-)
I think the first thing we have to keep in mind is that while well-known
use cases of GTK+ are in the domain of "desktop applications" ther
Hey,
Here's another discussion point I want people to think about before
the hackfest. This time it's not so much about API in a direct way but
more about a guiding principles for the kinds of APIs we want to
provide. The short question is this:
Who gets to decide how an application looks?
Thi
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