When will there be anything to review?  I saw one display at LV, for the
MAC collection I think.

-- 
David N. Lombard
 
My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel Corporation.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Brechin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:54 AM
> To: Lombard, David N
> Cc: OSCAR development
> Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] Scope of Jason's effort
> 
> The GUI work is being done by Terry and me.  I would venture to say
that
> he's doing the majority of the GUI work, and is bearing the brunt of
the
> design decisions.  Together, Terry and I are pretty much replacing
> everything.  If you have input/comments/suggestions, please send it
> along to both of us, but many parts of the new wizard are not at all
> completed yet.  The only thing that won't change a whole lot is the
> OPDer, which itself is receiving a major code rewrite.
> 
> With Perl-Qt, a lot of things are a lot easier than they would have
been
> with Perl-Tk.  Keyboard shortcuts, window management, and dynamic
event
> handling are much easier with Perl-Qt.  Expect a major change from the
> old wizard to the "new and improved" wizard.
> 
> Jason
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 09:31, Lombard, David N wrote:
> > Jason,
> >
> > What's the scope of your efforts?
> >
> > Are you replacing the entire GUI?  Or, replacing various bits under
the
> > current multi-step wizard?
> >
> > I ask because there are a lot of little usability and presentation
> > things that need to be done to the current wizard, like centering
> > windows, using consistent terminology, making windows large enough,
> > raising the wizard when one of the sub-tasks completes, keyboard
> > bindings, &etc.  They're all relatively easy, but would go a long
way to
> > making the wizard look substantially more professional.
> >
> > But, there's little point if you're replacing the whole thing...



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