Re: project status

Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Sunday 09 January 2005 00:06, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> 
>>On Saturday 08 January 2005 23:29, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>>
>>>If you would like to take a look at the code, CVS snapshots are available
>>>at <http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/gli/snapshots/>.
>>
>>The gtk based frontend looks great. Allthough I would suggest that you
>>might want to ask Aaron Shi (the guy who won the website redesign contest)
>>for help with the artwork ;-)
> 
> I'll also give some more detailed feedback for the gtk version.
> 
> In the partitioning screen it seems that the "create", "dump to console" and 
> "remove partition" buttons are alligned just below the device output. It 
> would be more consistent (esp. with differing output sizes) to allign them to 
> the bottom of the content box, just above the legend.
> 
> For consistency the local action buttons should actually get their own 
> position. In this case the legend should probably move to another place. 
> Maybe a vertical box along the right side.
> 
> To give them their own position makes the interface look more quiet, although 
> care must be taken to make this row of buttons not a part of the lower 
> general button structure.
> 
> For the same consistency reasons (like pages in a book having the same content 
> size, even if the line numbers are different) the network mounts screen (and 
> all other screens) should also have an explanation, and all explanations 
> should be roughly the same size (in lines), so that the contents can start at 
> the same position.
> 
> As said before, it allready looks great (just can be better (allways 
> true :-) ))!!!!

Apparently, you missed the phrase "work in progress" in the original post :) 
Thanks for the ideas. I will take them into consideration. Right now, I'm just 
trying to get everything in the frontend working and then I'll "pretty up" the 
interface. I welcome any suggestions that anyone else has.

-- 
Andrew Gaffney
Gentoo Linux Developer
Installer Project