If you missed it, there was some screenshots of the upcoming gtk frontend in jwiki
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Beta/Session%20Manager ĵaŭ, 25 Mar 2010, Murray Eisenberg skribis: > First, a question: How do I (easily, I hope) change the font size in the > browser window -- without, of course, resorting to changing the > browser's own magnification/zoom factor? > > In J6, this was easy and obvious -- the same sort of way as with > changing configs of most programs: From the Edit menu item, select > Configure. Then use a completely intuitive GUI dialog to change things. > > Second, some comments: Restricting things to a browser interface alone > is the wrong way to go -- driven more, I fear, by the desire to minimize > development effort than out of any actual improvement in the user > interface. > > I find everything harder to do with the J701 browser front end than with > the J6 (and earlier) j.exe GUI. > > And I've tried working with 701, even in the earlier pre-beta "concept" > version, and find it quite obvious that it is NOT mere novelty or > unfamiliarity with the new interface. Indeed, I use many different kinds > of programs on a daily basis, and nothing so far even approaches the > clumsiness of J701's interface. > > Unless there are dramatic improvements in usability, I am very likely to > give up J entirely. And as a user of J from its beginning, and of APL > before that, that is something I would not do lightly or happily. > > Murray -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
