Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:10:33 +0100, Simon TRENY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
> There is something I'd like to discuss here although I'm not sure it's > really the right place to do so.. Since Etk and Ewl have begun to be > usable enough, there has been a lot of new apps using one of these > too. The thing is, too often those apps only copy existing apps and I > just don't think this the right way. A lot of these apps would have > been a lot better if they hadn't used a toolkit but if they had used > directly Edje (and using Etk/Ewl only for the config dialogs). For > example, if we want to have a nice, original and innovative image > viewer, I really think its main interface should be directly coded > with Edje (like what entice did but in a more complete way). Same > thing for a filemanager, for an audio/video player or for an IM > client... > > Toolkits are nice for config dialogs or for apps that need to offer a > lot of control. If we really want to have a nice and innovative > Enlightenment desktop environment, we should be different from the > other desktop environments. We should have apps with a really nice > and well-designed interface, and most of the time, this is just not > possible with a toolkit. Elicit is a good example of an innovative > application that blows your mind away when you first launch it. If it > were using Etk or Ewl, it would just have been a common application. Hi, I agree with you that edje is a very powerful tool to create applications, and we should use it to create innovative user interfaces like in elicit or rage. But what about consistency between applications ? Do you have ideas how to maintain some king of consistency between apps, when creating you're own edje interfaces, or when using custom widgets in toolkits ? For example sharing color classes ... A tool like Glade, that would allow us to build interfaces made of Edje objects and Etk (or Ewl) widgets may be a part of the solution, but i believe it should be done at library level, not in a gui creator tool. Just my thoughts =) laurent ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
