Ah, yeah -- very smart. With the Tag section that could be a bit messy, as I anticipate the user will end up having a large list, which when using a drop-down becomes ever more impractical as the list grows . But for the Date and Type sections, which will have relatively few options, drop-downs should work very well. Thanks for the idea and feel free to get in touch again when your schedule clears up!
If you're up for it, I'd be interested in talking with you further and hearing more about your suggestions, such as what you had in mind with the horizontal sorting. Ideally, we'd like this to be a collaborative project, and good ideas definitely come from everywhere.
If you're interested in discussing what else you'd like to see in the project, you can get a hold of me via the Contact page on my site.
This was just to show you that we do have the desire and the ability to do something more polished. Obviously we're not going to do exactly this, and this is really rough and not completely thought out (I made it in one afternoon after a quick chat with another developer). I respect the feedback though, and I'll continue to push it a different direction.
As the artist working on Etoile, I totally agree with you. We're not there yet. There are a lot of issues I'd love to see resolved: the font issue is a major one for me (I have someone working on a new system font as I type this), and the lack of polish on the widgets and titlebars requires changes to happen in GNUstep proper in order for Etoile to take advantage of them. I'm in a discussion with the maintainer of GNUstep about that right now too. The About screen is ugly--point taken--and I need to fix that. I consider ugly UI elements bugs, and by all means, feel free to file bug reports against them. If I can do something about them, I will. This is one of the recent mockups I've been working on to try to target towards for our 0.3 release -- again, don't expect OS X, but hopefully it gives you some hope that we're not clueless, and that we actually do care about the UI.
On the project, we've long said that comparing ourselves to Apple and OS X would only lead people to disappointment. We don't have the resources of Apple -- there is no way we could ever compete. All we hope to do is provide something different, something that we who work on the project would enjoy using. Getting more people contributing would make that happen faster.
Likely they'll use Tapioca, since that's being developed by the Nokia Technology Institute (INdT). It already runs on Linux, and, from what I've read, has been built with mobile devices in mind, specifically the 770.
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Ah, yeah -- very smart. With the Tag section that could be a bit messy, as I anticipate the user will end up having a large list, which when using a drop-down becomes ever more impractical as the list grows . But for the Date and Type sections, which will have relatively few options, drop-downs should work very well. Thanks for the idea and feel free to get in touch again when your schedule clears up!
If you're up for it, I'd be interested in talking with you further and hearing more about your suggestions, such as what you had in mind with the horizontal sorting. Ideally, we'd like this to be a collaborative project, and good ideas definitely come from everywhere.
If you're interested in discussing what else you'd like to see in the project, you can get a hold of me via the Contact page on my site.
This was just to show you that we do have the desire and the ability to do something more polished. Obviously we're not going to do exactly this, and this is really rough and not completely thought out (I made it in one afternoon after a quick chat with another developer). I respect the feedback though, and I'll continue to push it a different direction.
As the artist working on Etoile, I totally agree with you. We're not there yet. There are a lot of issues I'd love to see resolved: the font issue is a major one for me (I have someone working on a new system font as I type this), and the lack of polish on the widgets and titlebars requires changes to happen in GNUstep proper in order for Etoile to take advantage of them. I'm in a discussion with the maintainer of GNUstep about that right now too. The About screen is ugly--point taken--and I need to fix that. I consider ugly UI elements bugs, and by all means, feel free to file bug reports against them. If I can do something about them, I will. This is one of the recent mockups I've been working on to try to target towards for our 0.3 release -- again, don't expect OS X, but hopefully it gives you some hope that we're not clueless, and that we actually do care about the UI.
On the project, we've long said that comparing ourselves to Apple and OS X would only lead people to disappointment. We don't have the resources of Apple -- there is no way we could ever compete. All we hope to do is provide something different, something that we who work on the project would enjoy using. Getting more people contributing would make that happen faster.
Likely they'll use Tapioca, since that's being developed by the Nokia Technology Institute (INdT). It already runs on Linux, and, from what I've read, has been built with mobile devices in mind, specifically the 770.