In the early stages of the project, there was a lot of debate regarding GUI concepts and -features and proposals. Extended discussions ensued on the Mailinglist and several people provided concept drawings.
→ Here is a collection of documents from these early discussions.
In the current phase of the project, the UI conception focuses on a way to build the interface in a systematic way, to support complex workflows with low friction. The following questions need to be addressed:
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How to use Perspectives, Views, Docking Panels and Layout
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how to adapt the Layout, ranging from a single Laptop screen to multiple monitors
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how to allocate and place new views and property panes intelligently
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how to allow for a coherent navigation scheme that works seamlessly and intuitively over a mixture of several Control Systems.
[The term »Control System« refers to one technical realisation of an human-computer-interface, which is used coherently and can coexist with other such interfaces → more here…
The most relevant control systems are: Mouse, keyboard, pen, hardware controls, …]
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how to build such a Layer of Interaction-Control without interfering with the evolution of the underlying UI toolkit ⚠ …
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We use the term Workflow in our discussions to denote the more integral
concerns of how to achieve given tasks within the application in the most
suitable and stringent fashion. We tend to separate those more global
considerations from the discussion of individual GUI features. → more about Workflow… |