[LAU] State of the art GUI

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sun Jan 30 02:31:09 UTC 2011


allcoms wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com 
> <mailto:paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Nick Copeland
>     <nickycopeland at hotmail.com <mailto:nickycopeland at hotmail.com>> 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.

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David
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