Reinhard, I'm on your side, I rest my case. Thanks for summarising all the failings of the current default GUI.
Rod Webster *1300 896 832* +61 435 765 611 VMN® www.vmn.com.au On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 17:33, Reinhard <reinha...@schwarzrot-design.de> wrote: > On Samstag, 2. Mai 2020, 08:22:05 CEST Jared McLaughlin wrote: > > In my opinion, linuxcnc should be more like a distro that > > you install packages on. The UI's should be packages that are not > > maintained by the main development team. > > That makes sense > > > I also agree with the idea that a cleaned up "new version" should be > > considered for the next major release. > > Would be nice! > > > I have used PathPilot and it seems a lot better than the other > > LinuxCNC UI's I poked at before. That said, I feel like even PathPilot > > has a long way to go ... > > Well, I'm the creator of JCNCScreen. > > The reason, why I started with such a big time-consuming work was, that > none > of the existing UIs was really usable for me (including PathPilot and > others). > > I'm bit outdated, so I can't read axis and the like, that don't respect > proposals of window manager (i.e. like fontsize). Even on my desktop pc I > need > glasses and put my nose onto the screen to be able to read axis ... > > For me, it is important, that I'm able to recognize the most important > states > of the machine at a glance. Even from a distance of about 4-5 meters. > None of the UI offers this. Most if not all are too noisy - and you need > several seconds to find out, what is relevant and what is just > high-polishing > for non-machinists - and even then: not every important state is visible. > Of cause, that does not mean, that I want to read gcode from that > distance, > but important machine states should be recognizable. > > Another problem is, that neither pyqt, nor gscreen runs on my desktop box. > I > don't know enuf of python to solve that problems on my own and it does not > help, if others state, that they don't have problems. > So I started with java, where I know to solve my own problems. > Startup may be too slow, but response time of the running app is fast enuf > for > anything. > > I don't really need my own UI - if another UI would offer, what I'm > looking > for, it would be just fine. > > cheers Reinhard > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
