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> From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:36:45 BRM wrote: |
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> > > Or a pretty GUI with clicky boxes to change the settings while never |
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> > > letting the user see the contents of the XML. |
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> > Once the user interface is in place it doesn't matter whether it is XML or |
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> > something else. The key is that is has a user interface, you can do a INI |
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> > format and still be just as crappy. |
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> Classic examples are the windows registry editor and gconf. My god, I hate |
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> both. It seems like the devs just chomped an XML file and rotated it 90 |
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> degrees to get an expandable tree view. |
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True - good examples of horrid interfaces. Needless to say... |
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> Which does absolutely nothing to aid my understanding of what goes where. |
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The point of the UI is that you ought not care what goes where, unless you are debugging the UI or the program itself. |
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While a UI is important; a good UI is key. |
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BRM |
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