Re: [linux-audio-dev] acid, linux

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] acid, linux
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: ke joulu  01 1999 - 23:18:51 EST


>> But what's even worse (as you mentioned), writing GUI code is just
>> *really* boring. You spend most of the time moving widgets from
>> position to another, making layout changes, wondering what the user
>> might do (and in what order), etc etc... I guess GUI-design programs
>> like Glade, QtEz, Qtarch make it more bearable,

they don't do a very good job where you want programmatic construction
of the GUI: eg. cmdline arguments specifying 32 steps instead of 16,
where each step UI is identical.

> Programming a good GUI is more about design than programming. That doesn't
>mean it's boring, it just means you have to design and not just fire off code.

very true. but that doesn't get rid of the boring stuff that Kai
mentioned.

--p


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