Chrome Again
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Understand any current weaknesses, gather requirements and discuss suggestions where we want to head with OOos GUI technology ...
See also http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/chrome_again
Current Weaknesses
| Title | Source |
|---|---|
| inflexible - requires VCL (or VCL's behavior in a vast number of classes) | Thorsten |
| increasingly alienating on modern systems (MacOS X being the prime example) | Thorsten |
| needs (c++) developers to modify existing dialogs | Thorsten |
Requirements
The following requirements are not mandatory (yet :-), but just reflect what the different parties think what needs to be achieved and how important it is ...
| Title | Source |
|---|---|
| needs to be flexible - it should allow us to adapt to future developments in UI design much easier than today | Thorsten |
| needs to blend in well with all supported platforms (and take into consideration future ports) | Thorsten |
| needs to provide at least the same amount of accessibility support as OOo has today | Thorsten |
| Vector Based UI | CJ |
| Draw objects Anti-Aliased | CJ |
| Draw objects, w. 50% opacity during drag & drop | CJ |
| Allow to modify GUI-Elements based on CSS | CJ |
| Smooth animations of GUI-Elements (e.g. for scrolling) | CJ |
| Transition and blend-over effects for GUI Objects (OpenGL, DirectX, Quartz, Compiz, Java/FX?) | CJ |
| Layout Manager | CJ |
| Declarative Description | MHU/KR |
| Cross Platform | KR |
| Simple Code Changes | Linked by KR |
| QA Test tool | Linked by KR |
| Re-use of existing code | Linked by KR |
| Simple new APIs | Linked by KR |
| i18n | Linked by KR |
| Automatic Layout | Linked by KR |
| Reduced Inheritance | Linked by KR |
| New resource file format | Linked by KR |
| Easy to use Dialog Editor | Linked by KR |
| Support for native controls | PL |
| Support for displaying data using reflexion (Example: Windows.Forms ComponentModel PropertyGrid) | b_michaelsen |
| Toolbars | |
| Allow to add flexible space between items | CJ |
| Allow to display context toolbars | CJ |
Material
- Platform UI Differences of several office applications
- Thoughts on UI Layout in several platforms (Office programs on Win, Linux, Mac)
- New GUI layouter and resource framework in VCL UI Rework
Categories: GUI | VCL
