Hi! >> But reworking 8.4 without using new 8.5 doesn't seem >> effective. For me it seems more reasonable to start >> usability work once 8.5 is accepted for main branch. > I'm afraid I just don't agree here. Scid's usability > issues are not from the lack of shiny new widgets. They > are because there are many instances of quirky, > nonstandard UI design. While some of these things are > interesting and novel, they do not contribute to ease of > use.
Just a thought here: IMHO it would greatly improve the usablity already if the settings menue is reworked to a dialog based interface that collects the various submenu items into single dialogs. I think e.g. about Options/Chessboard and all the submenues and the others are similar. I don't know 8.5 internals, but maybe one could start collecting this into a more commonly used dialog interface based on 8.4 (e.g. board size just being a slider there, stuff like that) and do it such, that it could even be reused in the porting to 8.5 that way that one could end up with a notebook based interface. I see Pascals and Michals point about the widget problem. Surely e.g. notebooks can not easily provided in 8.4. Hence, one could say this widget is "out of question" for the moment. But probably other widgets, closer to the 8.4 could really be wraped to use this or that interface and thus offer a smooth transition. One of my concerns is, that if today scids ui is changed to require 8.5 it makes up a box that could really end up in a huge efford that could have a problem with completion. I'd not be too ambitous as we all do the things in our spare time. (and most likely cleaning up scids UI is not as funny as implementing a new function one is looking for for years ;) > Cleaning this stuff up to make a consistent and more > standard UI would be effort better spent, and would not > preclude moving to a newer tk version later. I agree here. > This is all just my opinion and I am not in a position do > anything about it one way or another. Me as well. -- Kind regards, Alexander Wagner Universitaetsbibliothek Ilmenau Langewiesener Str. 37 98693 Ilmenau Tel.: 03677/69-4521 , Fax.: 03677/69-4617 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
