I’ve been reading my blog and it looks like I’ve not been very active.
It’s not totally untrue.
I’ve been very busy (and still am) with final exams and should be freed on May 28th, at 13:30 GMT precisely.
Not that I haven’t done anything. I have a lot of design ideas written on napkins. I concluded that pencils doesn’t write very well and fountain pens tend to be.. fountains. So, I have a stack on napkin-sized UI designs on a corner of my desk. ![]()
As for the request for ideas, I have some specific questions I’d like to have an opinion on. Here’s one: how far away from the ncurse interface should the GTK+ interface be ? To be more precise, we could take the example of keyboard bindings. Should I try to keep the same bindings ?
Keep in mind that the interface metaphor used for the graphical interface will probably be a bit different from the terminal interface. People will also be coming from other applications that implement some well known bindings. I’m thinking for example about the ctrl+pageup and ctrl+pagedown bindings to navigate between tabs which are widely used.
Edit: Hi Slashdot friends!