One thing we should certainly do is remove the "Why are you installing this" popup, or delay it until the 2nd or 3rd or maybe 5th time Padre is launched.
I've already encountered one person who was using Padre in a non-English country, but didn't speak the language. Not only couldn't he find his way to changing the language, but the popup dialog wasn't in a language he knew. Work needed there I think... Adam K On 30 June 2010 07:15, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was at a conference whre some Google employees showed Chrome and > explained some of the ideas behind it. > > One idea was "No UI is good UI" making Chrome very simple to use for > newbies but allowing > some advanced features for those who want it. > For example the idea of searching for things typed in the place where > the address should be > and non intrusive pop-ups. Eg. when you are on a page that is not in > your default language > an extra line appears at the top of the screen offering you to > translate the page. > > Then I was also talking to someone who runs a company that creates and > sells a derivative of Ubuntu. > One of the things they offer is a small window where the person can > type in what she wants to use > and the application that provides that service will be launched. > For example if she wants to "chat" and types that in the window an > application that is used for chatting > is launched. > > So I am thinking if we could adopt these ideas in Padre? > > The search window is basically and extended version of the quick menu find > united with the open resource window and if I think more about it then a one > row command line window. I wonder what do you think about this and if > we could run an experiment adding such window to the default layout > of the IDE? > > regards > Gabor > _______________________________________________ > Padre-dev mailing list > Padre-dev@perlide.org > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list Padre-dev@perlide.org http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
