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Author Topic: Two different GUIs, Please Vote / Express your opinion  (Read 9,248 times)

SkyIDE

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Two different GUIs, Please Vote / Express your opinion
« on: September 01, 2006, 09:48 AM »
Please help me make a decision about which GUI layout I should go for, continue development.

Current GUI:

http://www.skyide.com/images/current.png


New One:

http://www.skyide.com/images/new.png


I think, the new one is better because I intend to add more toolbars like, HTML toolbar utilities, JavaScript Toolbar, PHP etc etc and if I keep the current one, more and more toolbars will just keep on being added one on top of the other and eventually space may run out. If I proceed with the new one, I can just keep on adding tabs and place each toolbar there. Screen space will be preserved.


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Re: Two different GUIs, Please Vote / Express your opinion
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2006, 02:56 PM »
I think the less toolbars enabled by default the better, so I vote for the new one.
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Re: Two different GUIs, Please Vote / Express your opinion
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2006, 03:01 PM »
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I think the less toolbars enabled by default the better
yep, i agree - i'm finally understanding that the top tab panel replaces the toolbars - so yeah, i like that better than 100 toolbars, definitely.

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Re: Two different GUIs, Please Vote / Express your opinion
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2006, 03:22 PM »
I agree - less is not necessarily more, but just enough definitely is!

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Re: Two different GUIs, Please Vote / Express your opinion
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2006, 04:11 PM »
DEFINITELY the new, the old was a cluttered mess :)
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Re: Two different GUIs, Please Vote / Express your opinion
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2006, 04:37 PM »
Definitely the new one...and maybe also give users an option to hide tabs they will never have a use for.

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Re: Two different GUIs, Please Vote / Express your opinion
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2006, 03:47 AM »
Wow So many replies :) Thanks guys!

Now *that's* what I am talking about. Really thank you :)

Everyone's is favoring the new one including me. It provides the same functionality just less clutter. I will proceed with the new one. I intend to make Alpha 6 available by the weekend end with full Java support.

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Re: Two different GUIs, Please Vote / Express your opinion
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2006, 09:08 AM »
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Definitely the new one...and maybe also give users an option to hide tabs they will never have a use for.

Very true, a c++ programmer won't need to look at a java tab all the time ;)

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