>> Yes. Everyone agrees xtherion is fairly horrid and is merely a 'proof of >> concept' UI. I think stacho picked tcl because he already knew it.
No :) The first editor wrote Martin in Delphi/???(I do not remember the name of Linux clone). But it has not implemented canvas with vector graphics in it - and this was definitely needed. The only APIs, that has it implemented are Tcl/Tk and Qt - the second one is not GPL for Win32 :( >> Most of the people I know who are currently using illustrator rather than >> therion are doing it because the interface was too slow/horrible in >> comparison. Here I disagree. On a computer, where Illustrator works smoothly, also xtherion must work. The horribility is other case - a lot of things should work more intuitivly, I agree, but I do not agree, that drawing maps of complicated caves in Illustrator is more simple. It's the same with Word/TeX. For a simple one page letter to some stupid officer, I always use Word. But when I started to write the first mathematical formula of my diploma thesis in Word, I was forced (by the lack of time) to switch to LaTeX. >> The problem is of course that writing good UIs is both hard and tedious - >> any volunteers :-) :))) We have also something like ultimate GUI in mind, but... >> OK - that's another vote. Unless any of the main authors object violently >> this seems like the way to go. If somebody will write the transformation script - I'll do the stuff around... But I don't thing, that writing such a script will be very easy. S.
