waldo kitty wrote:
not that that is our problem or not...
Very true, so we leave it at that! :)
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Unfortunately this brings up the idea of aesthetic,
Consider the Preferences dialog in Mac Leopard's Mail client:
http://web.fastermac.net/~MacPgmr/Lazarus/Screenshots/mail_prefs.jpg
http://web.fastermac.net/%7EMacPgmr/Lazarus/Screenshots/mail_prefs.jpg
I don't think this dialog has a lot
2009/11/13 Phil Hess macp...@fastermac.net:
Good eye! No, this is the OS X Mail client.
After creating as many components as I have in fpGUI, I got accustomed
to the idea of paying attention to detail. Lazarus IDE dialogs are a
*real* eye-soar for me. But after using Lazarus for so long, I got
2009/11/14 Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com:
Sheesh, and they've misspelt colours ;)
:-)
Here's firefox on gtk2 with randomly sized buttons:
I simply can't get used to the chocolate brown colour theme of
Ubuntu. After a new install, that is the first thing I change.
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Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
After creating as many components as I have in fpGUI, I got accustomed
to the idea of paying attention to detail. Lazarus IDE dialogs are a
*real* eye-soar for me.
Strange, I noticed the same just today in another dialog :-(
When I come across it again in my IDE
2009/11/14 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com:
2009/11/14 Henry Vermaak henry.verm...@gmail.com:
Here's firefox on gtk2 with randomly sized buttons:
I simply can't get used to the chocolate brown colour theme of
Ubuntu. After a new install, that is the first thing I change.
Yeah,
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Some quick examples were applications don't follow the look feel
rules of the platform, yet users have no problems in using them.
* Windows Media Player.
* latest Microsoft Office with it's new menu+toolbar design
* Pixel image editor. It fakes native look. But
David Emerson wrote:
* almost any antivirus / antispyware program
:-) Now that's a good example of awful UI design! I wonder if they
actually employee UI designers to purposefully screw the living crap out
of their products UI to make cleaning your Windows PC from viruses any
harder.
The
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
Martin wrote:
2) is what Java and fpgui (and afaik msegui) aim for. It is easier
for the developper. But the enduser will find an application that is
different to any other app he runs on his PC (and therefore harder
to use)
I guess we will have to agree to
Florian Klaempfl wrote:
Not me ;) E.g. I really hate systems which have switched Ok/Cancel buttons.
Ah, so you are one of those users... that don't read the screen and
only rely on muscle memory. :-)
Hopefully once I have completed to port of MiG layout, that issue would
be a thing of the
2009/11/13 Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@mastermaths.co.za:
Florian Klaempfl wrote:
Not me ;) E.g. I really hate systems which have switched Ok/Cancel buttons.
Ah, so you are one of those users... that don't read the screen and
only rely on muscle memory. :-)
Reflex is orders of a magnitude
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
Florian Klaempfl wrote:
Not me ;) E.g. I really hate systems which have switched Ok/Cancel buttons.
Ah, so you are one of those users... that don't read the screen and
only rely on muscle memory. :-)
Yes, because it's quicker. Or do you look at each key before you
Florian Klaempfl wrote:
Or do you look at each key before you press it :)?
OK, you got me on that one. :-)
My co-workers hate touching my computer, because I have my keyboard set
to Dvorak, but the actual keyboard keys-caps are still in QWERTY. They
say I have the best password protection
My co-workers hate touching my computer, because I have my keyboard set
to Dvorak, but the actual keyboard keys-caps are still in QWERTY.
That is geeky, I must say. Wow!
Juha
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From: Hans-Peter Diettrich [drdiettri...@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 6:14 AM
To: grae...@opensoft.homeip.net; Lazarus mailing list
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] cross platform [Re: Lazarus Goal]
This is an argument for a Web (Delphi IntraWeb
:
From: Hans-Peter Diettrich [drdiettri...@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 6:14 AM
To: grae...@opensoft.homeip.net; Lazarus mailing list
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] cross platform [Re: Lazarus Goal]
This is an argument for a Web (Delphi IntraWeb?) layout, portable
across
platforms
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Hess, Philip J wrote:
From: Hans-Peter Diettrich [drdiettri...@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 6:14 AM
To: grae...@opensoft.homeip.net; Lazarus mailing list
Subject: Re: [Lazarus] cross platform [Re: Lazarus Goal
2009/11/13 Phil Hess macp...@fastermac.net:
Consider the Preferences dialog in Mac Leopard's Mail client:
http://web.fastermac.net/~MacPgmr/Lazarus/Screenshots/mail_prefs.jpg
Did you notice the color quoted text comboboxes in the lower left
are not equally spaced. I gather that is not an app
2009/11/13 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com:
2009/11/13 Phil Hess macp...@fastermac.net:
Consider the Preferences dialog in Mac Leopard's Mail client:
http://web.fastermac.net/~MacPgmr/Lazarus/Screenshots/mail_prefs.jpg
Did you notice the color quoted text comboboxes in the lower
Bee Jay wrote:
'Lazarus and Free Pascal aim to be write once, compile anywhere for
those
programs which only use the supported operating system features that
share a
common design'.
And I would've thought that this was obvious. There are just some
things you cannot abstract/emulate.
Well the understanding of cross platform is quite varying. The base
obviously is that one source code can be executed on all of the
supported platforms.
In my understanding, there are 3 kinds of cross platform implementation:
1. Cross platform is implemented within an virtual environment
Martin wrote:
2) is what Java and fpgui (and afaik msegui) aim for. It is easier
for the developper. But the enduser will find an application that is
different to any other app he runs on his PC (and therefore harder
to use)
I guess we will have to agree to disagree on the part that it's
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Martin wrote:
2) is what Java and fpgui (and afaik msegui) aim for. It is easier
for the developper. But the enduser will find an application that is
different to any other app he runs on his PC (and therefore harder
to use)
I guess we will have to agree to
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