On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Markus Weimar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Blueprints! What a metaphor! And no food connotations... This is excellent! > It does cleverly position ABOVE the naming mess of plugins, extensions and > add-ons, solutions, snippets...
Bingo, we may be on to something! >>> One thought concerning color. I think this should be the last benchmark to >>> use. Colorful or colorless: what counts are users that understand what the >>> farmers talk about and that quickly. >> >> Yes, but what about entertainment value? Even programmers need a >> chuckle now and then--as long as it doesn't get in the way of meaning, >> of course. > > I can only speak for myself. The farm metaphor was a one-time chuckle. Seeing > how terribly complex things can be achieved with BoltWire with amazing ease > and elegance lets me chuckle all the time. Glad BoltWire can do that! It makes me want to pull my hair out some times. Like right now! > Maybe it is because I am not an English native speaker but I never understood > how one could talk of skins and themes. Do you create a new theme when you > change five colors? Do colors really make a "theme" in the common meaning? > Does bigger line spacing make a theme? Does it need images? > > Skins? In my world, skins cover stuff. Does the skin cover your web page? Is > it transparent? And is the text tattooed? > > But colors, line spacing, images and whatever have one thing in common: They > change the look. No you are perfectly right. Looks is much more semantic than skins or themes and for the exact reasons you give. But themes and skins are more common terms. I do like "looks" however and wouldn't mind doing something just a bit out of the ordinary... :) > Right on. BoltWire is so close to intelligent engineering, building and > construction that the primary sector metaphor does not fit. Maybe it would > fit if everybody had a realistic picture of today's farming processes in > their head. But we don't. We think of green pastures, mooing cows and happy > kids playing in the dirt. Paradigm shift for me, Markus! Thank you... > Good thread! :) Agreed. We will definitely move this direction. 4.xx will be a good time to give BoltWire a bit of a structural facelift. Much appreciated your insight and challenge. Cheers, Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en.
