On 13 October 2010 19:12, Giovanni Corriga <giovannicorr...@tiscali.it> wrote: > Dear Kexi Development Group, > > thanks for your prompt reply. > The fact that in future versions for Windows and Linux native Kexi menus can > be enabled again is good news. > With regard to what is said in the third paragraph of your response we > agree: too complex applications with highly nested menus are often > unsuitable for end users. If I remember correctly, a survey that was done > years ago, it appeared that the mass of users using only 15% of the > functionality of any program. > But a problem arises: KDE standards and they must, or should I say should be > followed. > How to solve the problem?
The standard/guidelines would have to be extended. > Lately KDE seems taken from the "not invented here syndrome." I also think > of KDevelop. Throw away the work of so many years of development and start > again, at least when you could save or update of the work done. There are > the "Principle of the Pig" and "keeps things simple, stupid", if anyone > remembers him. The fact is that since the user interface of KDevelop 4 I do > not like, I decided to take the hand of the old code 3.5.5 and update > everything. An infamous work if done alone. Regarding KDevelop I am observing users of KDevelop on daily basis and they are happy with the new interrface. Old one was suboptimal for reasons I and you already have mentioned. I am not afraid of NIH syndrome - KDevelop shares concept of views with Apple XCode, Eclipse and recently Qt Creator, to name just these three. Kexi will increasingly benefit from usage of views I hope. > PS: I think I'll end up returning to Superbase type user interface for the > Atari ST, or even further back, like Archive of old Sinclair QL. What > memories. Ah you met Atari fan here :) PS: please use kexi@kde.org for the conversation. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & KOffice (http://kexi-project.org, http://identi.ca/kexi, http://koffice.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (http://windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ Kexi mailing list Kexi@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kexi