Re: [ww-tedit-dev] proportional fonts

[petar marinov]

Tzvetan Mikov wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "petar marinov" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 2:16 PM
> Subject: [ww-tedit-dev] proportional fonts
Would you make your mail software not expose my e-mail address in the 
reply. The messages are available from the web archive and I'm afraid 
that it can be harvested by spammers.

> I don't think that would be a good idea. Proportional fonts require a very
> different approach for screen composition - the existing framework for menus,
> dialog boxes, etc will have to be abandoned. If we are talking about
I know it will be different to what I have now. The positioning will 
change but the interaction could remain unchanged.


> proportional fonts, we might as well be talking about using native GUI controls
> for the menus or the file-open dialog box. That will kill the extreme simplicity
> and ellegance of porting WW to any platform (new clumsy GUI abstractions will
> have to be created), will destroy the consistent look and feel and, most
> importantly, will not bring any usability benefits.
No, no native GUI. I believe that WW's UI could go in an even better 
direction by being only character oriented.

> (I couldn't care less whether MSDEV's menus use proportional fonts)
I just thought it could look better.

> > I started thinkig about it when musing about flexible storing of palette
> > in the .ini files.
>
>
> Which goes to show that too much thinking is not always a good thing :-)
I didn't devote overly large portion of my brain on it. Just decided to 
throw an idea.

-petar