Thread: can the '08 GUI be ANY crappier?
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Gah... I'm so late for the fun

Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
No, not really. The only thing crappy are the large GUI-elements that waste so much space on the screen. Make them smaller (as they were before OS2007) and its the perfect "micro-laptop" UI.
Okay, I've always imagined a context-sensitive finger-friendly interface. For instance - imagine you have a fullscreen browser without any toolbars or scrollbars. You drag somewhere on the page and scroll. Or you can click close to the right/left edge where a scrollbar is supposed to be and a biiig scrollbar appears (over the page, without re-layout, maybe transparent) - you scroll and after you get your finger up, the scrollbar disappears. You click on the bottom edge and you've got a toolbar the same way - do what you want, press a button and it is gone. How does that sounds as a finger friendly not wasting space interface?

Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
One of the things I like most about the concept of the tablets is that they use well-established desktop technologies (such as GTK). End users dont care about this, but it makes it easier to bring already existing applications to the tablets without re-writing too much.

Breaking with well-established concepts might (not necessarily has to, but there's a risk) cause incompatibilities here. Its not that thousands of developers work on 3rd party apps for the tablets right now, right? I wonder if this number would further decrease if completely new UI-concepts would require devs to re-learn everything from scratch and make it harder (or impossible) to port desktop-application to the tablets.
I can say the same but the other way round - old and well established desktop technologies are ***** to program a new and usable interface, which doesn't fit in the old frame (and the mobile interfaces certainly are not). GTK+ for sure, didn't try QT yet, but i bet it also has its quirks. The technologies are moving for the better, adopting CSS for styling, but until that happens, we will enjoy crap GUIs, 'cause you're unable to do better without going to the roots (like lcuk does).
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