[CREATE] Cross Software UI

[Brian Vidal castillo]

Hi there, we are starting a huge project in order to take advantage of some
applications UI re-design: we want to make a huge UI redesign in the best
opensource design, authoring and media creation/edition software.

The need to do this is essentially, to provide a cross UI between all major
media-related software.


As a starting point
https://launchpad.net/linux+design+studio

The main steps to do this are:

- Research: seek the most efficient and maybe beauty UI based on users  
habbits and suggestions.
- Converge: make all apps share the same icons and key bindings (where  
applicable)
- Reestruct: converge the way the preference and options are handled, then  
the menus, the context menu and the new document creation way.
- Organize: Define the position of pannels, toolbars and such. (do not  
implement now).
- Implementation: the big step.

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Re: [CREATE] Cross Software UI

[Brian Vidal castillo]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:15:24 -0400, Sven Langkamp  
sven.langk...@gmail.com wrote:

 You can't choose a programming language as this isn't really a software
 project. You can specify a HIG, but you can't code a UI and put them on  
 top
 of all these projects.
 Projects that depend on the same toolkit might have some shared lib, but
 that doesn't work for all. In the end you have to do the work in every
 project with the specific toolkit/language.

Maybe... but one of the long-term goals is to makes them use the same  
toolkit. Researching first which covers the needs. It's not very smart to  
have a Design Studio collaborating between thems and have a different  
toolkit.

There are amazing features on QT and on wxWidgets, also on GTK+, but maybe  
a common toolkit would be simpler to develop and expand later.

What I mean, is that almost every design/media app is on C or C++. One of  
the goals of the project is proviode a common language to talking. But  
that's for the future.

It's faster develop on a high-level language like Java or C#, than on a  
simpler one like C, C++. hat's why Vala was choosed: it's O*S (Open  
Source) and it's a mask on top of C. Has an excelent performance and a low  
learning curve.

For now, specifications are the target. Feel free to open bug reports to  
start working on it. Surely projects will join us later, by now, we have  
to think and research.

 Since most of these apps are cross-platform Linux Design Studio is not  
 an appropriate name.

I can't agree more, but this started a year ago and it needed a name and a  
vision, so, Linux was the platform targeted. Anyway, think on it as a code  
name (a large code name isn't it?)

Also, LDS stands for Last Days Saints, so, the name really needs a re-name.

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[Brian Vidal castillo]

what about working with the GIMP UI redesign and take advantage from this  
process and reflect this on Inkscape or Scribus?

this can be achieved I think...

Somebody said Inkscape and Scribus are working on the UI, well GIMP has a  
big movement on this and we can use that.


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