>> One of the reasons for choosing a Windows dedicated version is so I
>> could
>> "jelly the GUI" :
>> http://boekhorst.net/Visor.png
>>
>> Yes, a 20KB PNG :)
>
> Very nice, flashy and all that, but ... it strikes me you're
> concentrating on a cool interface, instead of the functionality behind
> it. Are you sure you want to do that? :-)
Ah, yes, well, Yes, infact, this is quite a conscious decision..
I'm building this from a toolkit perspective (dfa toolkit, hilighting
toolkit, line-editting toolkit, fancy GUI toolkit, file hierarchy toolkit
etc.), so the things you see on the screen are just small building blocks
to be integrated into a larger whole. I'm quite intentionally staying away
from subversion for now and have the strong desire to make it 'flashy'.
However, quite a bit of the flashy work needs to be built up from the
foundation for it to work (eg. hilighting affects directly how I store a
file internally) - it's easier to do this now than to add it later..
GUI work is trivial btw. Not a lot of work, provided I build it in from
the start. If I were to add it later, it'd become quite a painful
nightmare. To give you an example, the difference of the two screenshots
sent before are a matter of hours, not days.
Finally, many people compare screenshots (myself included) prior to
downloading, making this GUI flashy will improve the "subversion
experience" when compared to Visual Sourcesafe or whatnot.
W.r.t. svn functionality - I think (also referencing to (but not
participating in!) the other threads) I want to wait before I dive in
there. Goal is now to set everything up so I can just "clunk" it in there.
Summarizing the various opinions stated : 1) if I don't do it from the
start, it's not going to get done, 2) user experience is critical to
adoption, 3) svn still needs Win32 work (*ducks* - yes I know, I
(sh|c)ould do this).
Regards, Martijn.
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