----- Original Message ---- > From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:36:45 BRM wrote: > > > Or a pretty GUI with clicky boxes to change the settings while never > > > letting the user see the contents of the XML. > > Once the user interface is in place it doesn't matter whether it is XML or > > something else. The key is that is has a user interface, you can do a INI > > format and still be just as crappy. > Classic examples are the windows registry editor and gconf. My god, I hate > both. It seems like the devs just chomped an XML file and rotated it 90 > degrees to get an expandable tree view.
True - good examples of horrid interfaces. Needless to say... > Which does absolutely nothing to aid my understanding of what goes where. The point of the UI is that you ought not care what goes where, unless you are debugging the UI or the program itself. While a UI is important; a good UI is key. BRM
