[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] N800 GUI Improvements from a Newton Developer's Perspective

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 12:23 -0500, Sean Luke wrote:
> After using the N800 for a week or two, which of course qualifies me  
> as Knowing All Things About It :-), I've thrown together a web page  
> describing various places the N800's GUI could be improved, and some  
> ugly bugs, from the perspective of a Newton developer (myself).  As I  
> like the N800 I tried to be fair and reasonable, exorcising most of  
> my snark, but sometimes I couldn't help myself, sorry.
> 
> Before I made the site public, I thought I'd post it to the  
> developers' group and ask for some comments, agreements, and  
> disagreements.  The site URL may change afterwards.
> 
> 	http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/n800/

This sentence makes it difficult to take things seriously:
"The N800 employs the GTK+ toolkit, originally created for the GIMP
photo-manipulation program and bearing all the hallmarks of inexpert
design."

It's also not clear whether you are criticising GTK+ (just a toolkit) or
GIMP (It's UI is getting better all the time and I'm sure they'd welcome
constructive criticism).

-- 
Murray Cumming
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