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Re: Summer of Code 2007
From: |
Nicola Pero |
Subject: |
Re: Summer of Code 2007 |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:56:47 +0100 (CET) |
>> Can we add 'Writing a Renaissance GUI Builder' to the list of tasks ? I
>> volunteer mentoring a student doing that. It's a pretty tough job though,
>> so
>> only determined people! ;-)
>
> No, lets not write a new GUI Builder here,
>
No, let's not start a new flamewar here, ;-)
Your idea could be good and I respect it, feel free to volunteer for it
(or for mentoring it) but it's not what I had in mind. :-)
I did have in mind writing a Renaissance GUI Builder because I'd like to
see a "native" Renaissance GUI Builder where the Renaissance philosophy
is implemented natively. I do believe that that will require new user
interface/design ideas. Ie, I want auto-layout concepts directly built
pervasively everywhere into the basic interface. I feel adding Renaissance
to Gorm (which has a completely different philosophy) will end up in a
patched system that might somehow work but be ugly and meaningless.
I have nothing against a Gorm pluging for Renaissance though. You can mentor
a Gorm plugin for Renaissance if you want. I volunteer to mentor "writing
a Renaissance GUI Builder" though. ;-)
I also suggest we stop the discussion here and accept that we have different
views. We all thought a lot about this and we came to different conclusions.
Nobody needs to worry anyway as I don't have time to write a Renaissance GUI
Builder myself ... unless I stop working on gnustep-make of course. ;-)
Thanks