Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-24 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
Hi Everyone My name is Patrick, this is my first post here. I switched my primary computer from Windows to Linux about 9 years ago. I service scientific instruments. About 12 years ago I became aware of the brutal conditions scientific software is sold under. I have been slowly writing my own

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-24 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
er used one. It has to follow the law of least astonishment. Hi good0Th I don't really need prettiness but thanks for the post. -Patrick On 13-05-24 07:14 PM, Richard Toohey wrote: On 05/25/13 10:48, Patrick Mc(avery wrote: Hi Everyone [chop] While about 7 out of the 9 years with Linux

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-24 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
ng Windows user both personally and professionally, if I had GUI concerns I'd seriously consider whether OSX was a viable option rather than Windows. With that said, I wouldn't target either platform for X11. On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Patrick Mc(avery wrote: Hi Everyone My name is

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-24 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
Hi Chris Actually spectrwm looks very cool. I really like ncurses based interfaces but I need to display images too. I could see a hybrid application fitting into this window manger. On 13-05-24 07:29 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: I started out using KDE while I was leaving Windows behind. I n

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-25 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
Hi Jan Thanks for mentioning this, if it ships with Open BSD then it's going to be correct. It might just be a matter of making it a bit pretty. On 13-05-25 03:56 AM, Jan Stary wrote: On May 24 18:48:05, spell_gooder_...@spellingbeewinnars.org wrote: While about 7 out of the 9 years with L

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-25 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
ad. It works on windows, but you get compromises about the looks, but it usually works, I ported successfully lots of programs there. Patrick Mc(avery wrote: Hi Everyone It looks like OpenBSD is all about software correctness and I am sure it will be great to work with, in a sort of "back end

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-25 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
u may possibly find one that exactly matches the job... -ag -- sent via 100% recycled electrons from my mobile command center. On May 24, 2013, at 5:39 PM, "Patrick Mc(avery" < spell_gooder_...@spellingbeewinnars.org > wrote: Hi Marti Thanks so much for your rapid and help

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-25 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
cated mini applications into one. I wrote off EFL as a mobile only thing, I will give it another look along with it's accompanying window manager. Thanks again On 13-05-25 02:59 AM, Martijn van Duren wrote: Hi Patrick, On 05/25/13 02:39, Patrick Mc(avery wrote: Hi Richard Actuall

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-25 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
... -ag -- sent via 100% recycled electrons from my mobile command center. On May 24, 2013, at 5:39 PM, "Patrick Mc(avery" wrote: Hi Marti Thanks so much for your rapid and helpful response. I will still consider Mac OSX but it's just that it is the worst of two worlds for m

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-25 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
Hi Marc I have looked at xforms, it is helpful to study to understand FLTK too. Thanks and Thanks to Jay for his post too On 13-05-25 11:51 AM, Marc Espie wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:39:17PM -0400, Patrick Mc(avery wrote: Hi Richard Actually I am not looking for a Windows clone, just

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-25 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
e and help On 13-05-25 11:16 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, Patrick Mc(avery wrote: Hi Ricardo I am curious which scientific instrumentation application that was? I have heard about the odd one that will run on Mac but it's an industry 99% dominated by Windoze. it was simulation softwar

Re: Seeking GUI refuge

2013-05-27 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
Hi Jan I just tried the fvwm from my linux distro repos. It's pretty nice. I could always compile the GPL version from source on OpenBSD, i will give it a shot. Thanks-Patrick On 13-05-26 11:54 PM, Jan Lambertz wrote: Hi Patrick, My Gui problem is (was) quite similar. I was searching

Re: Hackathon

2013-05-29 Thread Patrick Mc(avery
Hi Everyone I just joined the list 10 days ago or so. Where and when in Toronto will it be held? My family situation is quite urgent and it's hard to be away from home for more then 30 minutes but it would be nice to be involved in some way, I am 30 minutes north of the city. -Patrick