At least for number 1, I think the LC UI needs to be sensible, but not
necessarily like every other dev environment out there. We can already
block out the distractions of the underlying desktop with:
set the backdrop to gray
~Roger
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 6:15 AM, RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, but got caught by this.
>
> "Op 10-May-16 om 14:38 schreef Andrew Ferguson
> andrewferguson500@... [HyperCard]:
> >
> >
> > A modernised UI was one of the stated goals of the kickstarter project.
> > This hasn't been started yet, though, and I can't find any mention of it
> > in the LiveCode roadmap.
> >
> > Perhaps when the LiveCode team get round to this, we could contribute?"
>
> I do remember an idea for a sort "all-covering-the-desktop" type UI was
> mentioned
> during the Kickstarter (in fact I mentioned it 2 or 3 times subsequently),
> but:
>
> 1. "modernised": if modernising the UI means making something so one
> cannot get at the desktop while
> one is working, forget it!
>
> 2. If modernising the UI means making the UI look exactly like the UI of
> Visual Basic et al, forget it!
>
> 3. That word "modernise" is semantically slithery.
>
> 4. What's wrong with the present UI in &.0 and the slightly tweaked one in
> 8.0?
>
> "I can't find any mention of it in the LiveCode roadmap."
>
> Has this been "quietly dropped" because . . . err . . . it's not really
> needed/wanted
> and/or is about 1 million times less important that all the other REALLY
> CLEVER STUFF
> that is going into LC 8.0 ?
>
> Richmond.
>
>
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