[Gambas-user] gambas 0.60 Mandrake RPM's and a patch

[Rob]

On Monday 07 July 2003 15:19, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> It seems you did not like my new blue arrows ? :-) You have put back the
> old icons in your patch !

Oops, the truth comes out, no, I didn't like them ;)  I think they're a step 
backward in usability, with all the icons for all the functions on the form 
being the same graphic.  And one of the things that actually drew me to 
Gambas in the first place (circa 0.50) was what I saw as the welcome dialog's 
professional looking design.  

But I didn't mean to include my changes to the welcome form in my patch 
because I felt it would be stepping on your toes.  I mean to start making 
RPM's of an alternative version of the IDE with a different name so people 
don't think it's official (essentially, my MDI version for VB5/6 fans once I 
get something similar to docking working...) and I will probably still 
include the old version of the welcome screen there, if not with your 
existing icons for new/open/recent/quit then with the KDE Crystal 
equivalents.  The RPM (at least the one I do for Mandrake) will still require 
both gambas and gambas-gui to be installed and will likely only consist of an 
executable and a readme - it will only be meant as a slightly more VB-ish 
interface to the same features.

> I thought clearing the property dialog when no control is selected was...
> clearer to the user.

Except when they're trying to reference the contents of the property dialog 
when they're editing their code... ;)  This isn't just some freaky usability 
idea on my part, I actually had a couple VB users I've turned on to Gambas 
ask me about it so I looked into fixing it.  

If you'd rather I didn't distribute an executable called "gambas" with these 
changes, I could release a new RPM without them and save the 
non-dialog-related parts of my patch for when I put my alternative IDE out 
there.  I really don't want to upset anyone with my "easy migration for VB 
users" agenda.

Rob