Re: [LAU] State of the art GUI

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jan 30 2011 - 04:31:09 EET

allcoms wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden
> <mailto:paul@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Nick Copeland
> <nickycopeland@email-addr-hidden <mailto:nickycopeland@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
> > On the subject of android phones, only a small selection of them
> and other
> > smartphones/tablets actually have keyboards. Surely item #7 for
> having
> > keyboard accelerators for every function is a bit of a misnomer
> if you are
> > talking about State of the Art? This is definitely not a must have.
>
> alexandre's second list concerned usability, and although its clear
> that some platforms do not have or need good keyboard driven
> approaches, people are not going to be mixing multitrack audio on
> android phones for a while yet. the keyboard is still an incredibly,
> incredibly efficient man/machine interface, when it exists.
>
> i believe that it is/was the lack of such an approach that played an
> important role in alex & chris deciding to start OOM, for example,
> because they are both aware of the incredible speedup it provides for
> professional (read "deeply familiar") users compared to point (with
> mouse or finger(s) and click methods.
>
>
> +1
>
> Touch interfaces, voice (and eventually mind) control - pah! You will
> have to prise the keyboard and terminal from my cold, dead hands! :D I
> certainly prefer GUIs that let the user decide if they want to use it
> primarily or entirely with keyboard or mouse instead of trying to
> enforce one way or requiring a combo of the two.
>
> Somebody (David?) brought up GUIs that resize well to different display
> sizes- now that certainly is a worthwhile, non-superficial feature of a
> modern GUI.

Yup, that's me. My biggest complaint about Zyn/Yoshimi UI is I can't
resize its window or adjust the font sizes it uses.

-- 
David
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