Thanks for all of the great feedback (and please, keep it coming). With these suggestions and some internal guidance, we're going to move on to fleshing out mocks. Once I have something tangible, I'll share it here.
-- Chris On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:01 PM, martino <[email protected]> wrote: > While I appreciate the richness of widgets and behaviours offered by > framework like SmartGWT or GXT, I don't particularly like their > "windowish" look and feel, also I don't think it's a particularly good > idea promoting GWT powerfulness or web application in general by > mimicking desktop application widgets aspect (how many useless "web > desktops" simulating a windows desktop inside your browser have you > seen?). > > I think GWT/Roo should support at least two basic skin: a light theme > with few/no images/resources (http://gwt-bikeshed.appspot.com/ > Scaffold.html isn't a bad start to me!) and maybe an heavier more > appealing one but I think some effort should be done to distinguish > GWT/web applications from desktop app. I would use more/nicer effects > (slide, fade ecc.) to have smoother transitions and/or communicate to > the user that something is happening/has happened (think of mobile > apps also...). > > Just my 2 cents > > Martino Piccinato > > > > On Aug 6, 2:44 pm, Chris Ramsdale <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey GWT(ers), > > > > I've heard from many of you that GWT apps simply don't look that good out > of > > the box, and styling the default app would go a long way. We couldn't > agree > > more. As some of you know, GWT 2.1 (with the help of Spring Roo 1.1) will > > generate a full-fledged scaffolding app that users can then go customize, > > and build on top of. The current incarnation looks like this: > > > > http://gwt-bikeshed.appspot.com/Scaffold.html > > > > And while it's a start, it's long from being...well...good looking. I'm > > working with some UI/UX people back at Google, but in the spirit of > openness > > I wanted to get feedback from the real users -- you. Specifically we're > > looking for "business" apps that are a good example of UI and/or UX. Apps > > that allow you to track tasks, expenses, travel, projects, etc. > > > > If you have ideas, simply post a link in a follow-up to this thread. > > > > Cheers, > > -- Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" 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/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
