I'm new with FLTK (2.x) but I know about it for qute some time. When I firstly, on Dejan's suggestion, visited www.fltk.org ... really guys I thought that people involved are some newbie h4x0r kids that would like to present themself as much programmish as it is possible. For the record, I'm not involved in some web design and I relly prefere pure, simplistic style when it comes to this, but choice of the colors... man.
I assume that all of this wont change the opinion of people responsible for maintaing that site, since there seem to be prevaling opinion, that programmers even those dealing with graphics, should be "sterilized" of any taste for what is pleasant and what is not pleasent to read, and shouldn't object even if site is in some twisted ASCII (non-art) style, but you really should'n ignore that majority thinks desing (IMO colors mainly) is really poor, those who do not talk about it, and I mean about "would be beginners", are already using some other GUI library (GUI library because FLTK is not "toolkit" it lacks means for dealing with sockets, files, regular expressions... so it is "GUI library, right?"). As for newreaders, only now I now saw that there is note about it on site "Point your news reader at news.easysw.com to view these forums directly." :) I think that it is because, section is named as *Forum* and believe it or not, its not unusual to encounter a forum on web, quite contrary, so when people click on its name they expect to see forum, and list of subforums. My suggesttions about this are, either rename section name from "Forum" (not to "Discussions" because often these two are synonims for the same) to something other that would indicate that preferable for communication is using mailing list, or (less possible) arange so that it really becomes a forum but, all messages posted on it (use of the pictures in avatar and messages can be restricted to sane level or forbiden entirely) would be sent also to mailing list subscribers, and vice-versa, all messages sent on mailing list would be posted on forum. There are some sites already, that use this kind of approach. And as for "Forum vs Mailing list" issue, personally, if forum is well designed and forbids abnormal use of pictures inside it (I think mentioned Drupal has such restricting options) it's much easier to communicate over it, it is not without reason that forums massively take place of mailing lists, for example distinguishing code snippets from the rest of the message text is much more easier than in plain text messages. Best regards. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
