well i see it being a good thing if worked on a little bit. i have been a linux user for 11 years and the stride linux has made in those years is formidable and i just want to thank all the developers and volunteers for their time for this
As a fairly heavy GIMP user, I would LOVE to use this. To put the tools I want on the image I'm working on would save me lots of alt-tabbing to the toolbox and back. This looks very useful to me.
Could be useful for building app toolbars in the first place. IE, provide a stock set of widgets (text, graphics, etc) in the main GUI and let apps build toolbars from that pool.
While this is a great achievement technically, it's real-world usefulness is rather slim. It would obviously add a great deal of complexity, and a minimum of users would actually utilize it. There are much more important projects to be spending one's time programming; such as creating standards for all Linux distributions to follow. Until the time when Linux becomes standardized, it will be just a useless geeks toy to the rest of the world.
That's a very neat tech demo, and I can see the usefullness of such easy UI manipulation in some specialized fields. However, I wouldn't want it to invade my userland. I'm a tinkerer, and having too many options decreases my productivity. That's why I'm a Mac user - most decisions have been made for me, and I agree with them. I just want to use my computer for things other than... tinkering with my computer.
The problem is that real world users dont bother with customizing their user interface. They simply learn to use what they find. How many people have you seen customizing toolbars and menus in office? Funcionality to do that has been there for a long time and its hardly being used.
I love seeing ideas that push the boundaries of conventional thinking like these do. Hopefully some of these concepts will develop into something genuinely productive in the mainstream.
I love seeing ideas that push the boundaries of conventional thinking like these do. Hopefully some of these concepts will develop into something genuinely productive in the mainstream.
well i see it being a good thing if worked on a little bit. i have been a linux user for 11 years and the stride linux has made in those years is formidable and i just want to thank all the developers and volunteers for their time for this
i like it
i can see the real world use of this app
thegoaliezone 5 years ago
sketchpad pro type of interface would be nice in gimp too
seriouslycgi 5 years ago
As a fairly heavy GIMP user, I would LOVE to use this. To put the tools I want on the image I'm working on would save me lots of alt-tabbing to the toolbox and back. This looks very useful to me.
muttwalks 5 years ago
F for Flexibility.
olllj 5 years ago
Could be useful for building app toolbars in the first place. IE, provide a stock set of widgets (text, graphics, etc) in the main GUI and let apps build toolbars from that pool.
UrsusMorologus 5 years ago
I think it's rather clever, and a good deal more worthwhile than the "WOW LOOK! EYECANDY!" things people seem to be doing with XGL.
DannoHung 5 years ago
While this is a great achievement technically, it's real-world usefulness is rather slim. It would obviously add a great deal of complexity, and a minimum of users would actually utilize it. There are much more important projects to be spending one's time programming; such as creating standards for all Linux distributions to follow. Until the time when Linux becomes standardized, it will be just a useless geeks toy to the rest of the world.
tomismusic 5 years ago
That's a very neat tech demo, and I can see the usefullness of such easy UI manipulation in some specialized fields. However, I wouldn't want it to invade my userland. I'm a tinkerer, and having too many options decreases my productivity. That's why I'm a Mac user - most decisions have been made for me, and I agree with them. I just want to use my computer for things other than... tinkering with my computer.
nevenmrgan 5 years ago
The problem is that real world users dont bother with customizing their user interface. They simply learn to use what they find. How many people have you seen customizing toolbars and menus in office? Funcionality to do that has been there for a long time and its hardly being used.
kyriakosk 5 years ago
I love seeing ideas that push the boundaries of conventional thinking like these do. Hopefully some of these concepts will develop into something genuinely productive in the mainstream.
Meatshoes 5 years ago
I love seeing ideas that push the boundaries of conventional thinking like these do. Hopefully some of these concepts will develop into something genuinely productive in the mainstream.
Meatshoes 5 years ago
it seems pointless and useless, but we'll see in the next 20 years or so :)
sinful21 5 years ago
Completely useless. For programmers this will create nothing but problems. Interface will be a total mess.
itubewell 5 years ago
Great work. It's good to see the Linux community so far ahead of Microsoft.
If only Unix type GUIs had this flexibility ten years ago. To this day I still cuss at Solaris/CDE.
joemo75 5 years ago