On 09/14/2018 02:34 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > I will try and update the manual at some point with the new information, > if we are removing GTK does this mean most of the apps are going to go, > i am guessing we are doing this in order to reduce space or resource usage. > > Paul Yeah, sorry Paul, it is a lot of work for everyone. It is to address 2 major issues. 1. size/speed/features the FLTK apps I am making are considerably smaller and generally run faster than their counter parts. If they do not run faster, it is simply because they have tons more features... for example, the text editor Xedit is really hard to use, and relies on older console based text editor familiarity, most modern text editors (leafpad, mousepad, pluma, etc...) have a different type of interface, and support a bunch of modern features. I am trying to fully accomplish this in our text editor (flpad is the name of it)
2 aesthetics There was a valid complaint about our distro on distrowatch (see Ali's previous e-mail and read the distrowatch rating page). This is that all the apps look really different. For example, xedit looks nothing like... well anything else, and doesn't fit in well with anything, and the calculator has the same problem (as well as all the other apps) so to make everything use the same visual style (in FLTK) using the FLTK human interface guidelines (which I have been trying to adhere to) to make things easy and intuitive is our goal. Our motto is KISS, right? We want ToriOS to be easier to use than LXDE, as well as faster, and more lightweight. We want to support all the old hardware we can, and also to allow new hardware to use it (at some point when we use another installer that supports UEFI for 64bit). So please wait until things are more finalized (i.e. I have an ISO built for you to test). I will link you to the screenshots of the new apps when I get everything to a place I am pleased with. -- Regards -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev Post to : torios-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
