Allan Rae wrote:
>
> Rob, what you have to understand is that John is obsessed with
> complying with policies/directives/suggestions of what makes "Good
> UI." Hence the number of postings and arguements in the last few
> months in which John has provided URLs for various "Good UI" documents
> o
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> John Levon wrote:
[...]
> > Rob wrote:
> >>The frontend's look&feel may be different, but items should be in exactly
> >>the same dialog,
> >
> > Like I said, it's up to the xforms people to play catch up.
>
> Well, do the xforms people agree? Is Qt indeed
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:55:36AM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> >I don't see these as problems.
>
> In my opinion this breaks the idea of GUII.
Au contraire, this has been the intention of LyX's GUII work for a very
long time. We are *not* going to go down the XUL path ;)
> I'll report whenever
> "Rob" == Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Like I said, it's up to the xforms people to play catch up.
Rob> Well, do the xforms people agree? Is Qt indeed the UI default
Rob> going-to-be and all other frontends should follow the Qt layout.
Rob> Or is the underlying plan to abandon
John Levon wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 06:01:37PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
>
>> *) 4 tabs instead of 5
>> *) items are rearranged to different locations.
>
>
> I don't see these as problems.
In my opinion this breaks the idea of GUII.
>> *) etc. etc.
>
> please elaborate ;)
Okay.
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 06:01:37PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> First of all: am I right that Qt is still in the state of "under
> construction",
This is right.
> implying we should not scrutinize the details too much?
This is wrong. Please report ANY problems you have. I/Edwin may know about
t
John Levon wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:22:06AM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
>
>>This UI layout definitely needs to be equalized eventually!
>
>
> This is up to the xforms people to do. Qt makes several things a LOT
> easier to do. If you spot usability problems with the Qt dialogs,
> please
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:22:06AM +0900 or thereabouts, Rob Lahaye wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm quite suprised how much the Qt dialogs differ from the Xform
> ones. I don't mean the way they look, but their contents. Some Qt
> dialogs have a totally different layout and arrangement of items.
>
> Thi
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:22:06AM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> This should be avoided. Explaining how to use LyX will be unnecessarily
> complicated:
> if you use Xforms, do blablabla, however, in Qt you should do.
>
> This UI layout definitely needs to be equalized eventually!
This is up t
