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Re: why cant i edit an image a second time? [message #20183 is a reply to message #20177]

Tue, 24 February 2009 10:05

abductee
Messages: 22
Registered: June 2007
Location: Germany

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THANKS!

that helps. guys, i really don't want to be rude or so...
i really love the work you're doing. but there are a lot of usuability issiues within this project.
i tried (when i was here in 2007) to convonce some people to do a bit of stuff in that direction.
even made a wiki to post stuff in, and wrote down my ideas as best as i could.
( see http://www.abductee.org/wiki/index.php?title=Context-based_C omment_Visibility or http://www.abductee.org/wiki/index.php?title=TheIDE_Highligh ting )

anyway, my point is:
you're all doing fantastic work here, but small things like not knowing "Ctrl+T" produce so huge levels of frustration in your user communtiy especialy at the entry level. maybe the time is right to look into usuability side a bit more again.

actually it would be really cool, if users could come up with their own syntax-highlighting schemes and shortcuts and so on.
but not via a hombrewn self-hacked- versions of upp that are surely out there... but how to channel this stuff right back into upp. maybe via a config-file in the buildprocess or or something similar..

so that when someone has a mod for ... lets say more "works-as-expected"-keyboard shortcuts. he/she could submit that.
and when he/she downloads the new version it comes with "the old default shortcuts" and somhwere a dialog "use shortcut-scheme myname1" or "use syntaxhighlighting/skin/whatever"-$randomcodernick"

my two cents. and thanks again.

p.s.: the high hurdles to start with upp (as in usuability-frustration) scared a couple of my friends away from upp as well.
one of them said recently to me "why are you still using that? the improvemnts you suggested two years ago are still not in there... so i don't think it will get better" :/

p.p.s: in the meantime i have written an own compiler and upp was really great for doing the ui. and with a bit of tweaking the colors where acceptable:
http://abductee.org/xdegui http://abductee.org/xdegui2
still, i don't get why the fontrendering looks so much differnt(yeah, unfortunaley as in worse Sad

), than in "normal windows"

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