Pangea - Alternative Gui To Gmenu
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dflemstr
It's a ball.
+1, news on this?
This seems to be the best menu option at the moment if it is anywhere near where it was in the last shown video.
This seems to be the best menu option at the moment if it is anywhere near where it was in the last shown video.
efegea
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Nothing that has not been said before on the unofficial blog. I'm in the progress of remaking the interface using the new Qt 4.6 animation and state machine systems and now it looks *a bit* more "moblin", and has improved some design fails that were on last video, like the big wasted space to show the description and screenshot. I'm also on a new operating system (where people do like to eat apples and candy...) so I'm also working on tunning a virtual machine with kubuntu so I can continue the coding.. Nothing more.
dflemstr
It's a ball.
If you don't mind me asking... Why would you need KDE to develop in Qt? Or Linux at all for that matter?efegea said:
EDIT: Oh and BTW, I just thought about something: How about integrating not just discovered PNDs and so on in the Pangea menu, but also combining it with a package installer? So, there would be a tab called "New applications" that would look very similar to the usual program menu, but when clicking the icons, they wouldn't launch anything but instead download the correct package from the PND Manager? Could be pretty slick if implemented correctly, and I've put a lot of effort into making the PND Manager usable by 3rd party tools, so it shouldn't be difficult to do.
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efegea
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dflemstr said:
KDE because I feel more confortable. and linux because libpnd needs "inotify" which is only on linux kernel, won't compile on mach kernel.
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dflemstr
It's a ball.
/me hopes that fsnotify will be more portable (which it probably won't be) once it's finished so that programs developed for Linux won't be so platform-bound.efegea said:
BTW, read my edit above.
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efegea
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dflemstr said:
I'd prefer to make it just a launcher, a launcher for PNDs and *perhaps* roms, but just that. I had the idea time ago of making it a complete enviroment a bit like Moblin, but that was overcomplicating things (does that word exist in English?) Just a launcher, just a launcher!!
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Dead1nside
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Sorry to dig this one up but I've just been taking a look at it and I certainly love the look. I hope this is still being developed.
second exodous
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The GUI you've made is really cool. I like the idea of no names below the icons, could you make it so names are an option?
efegea
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second exodous said:
The new design doesn't have names below icons. Well, it doesn't have icons.
Although if I continue with the project I'll implement an option so names can be shown over the thumbnails of the thumbnail grid, for people that prefer to read the names (sometimes a screenshot can be confusing)
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efegea
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It's so quiet here in this thread..
Let's post an mockup I did time ago of the new design. Why don't I post a screenshot of the current status? Well, I'll do that when Pangea is ready to be shown. I still have a lot to do. I won't post a screen of something incomplete. That is.
That means also not access to sourcecode. Although I don't have a svn/git/whatever working anyway.
I wanted the new design to be hold until release (of the launcher), but well...here it is. And I'm not showing all of its features
Let's post an mockup I did time ago of the new design. Why don't I post a screenshot of the current status? Well, I'll do that when Pangea is ready to be shown. I still have a lot to do. I won't post a screen of something incomplete. That is.
That means also not access to sourcecode. Although I don't have a svn/git/whatever working anyway.
I wanted the new design to be hold until release (of the launcher), but well...here it is. And I'm not showing all of its features
Trip
Sorry, but I suck at explaining stuff :P
Looking good efegea.
Looks to me like the picture that's highlighted, zooms out a bit and makes itself bigger with a nice smooth animation.
Or am I wrong?
Looks to me like the picture that's highlighted, zooms out a bit and makes itself bigger with a nice smooth animation.
Or am I wrong?
bzar
A Commando
I like! Looking forward to seeing it in action. Keep it up
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Trevsweb
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thats cool. love the new design.
wolfmanz51
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Awesome keep up the good work
efegea
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I'm open to listen ideas and suggestions, and critiques!!
Trip
Sorry, but I suck at explaining stuff :P
Get your hair cut you hippyefegea said:I'm open to listen ideas and suggestions, and critiques!!
Oh you meant the menu.. It's a little hard for us to give suggestions without seeing all the actual features and how they all work together I'm afraid. Maybe if you provide a little more info
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It looks like you're focusing towards screenshots instead of icons. Personally, I prefer the old concept. The interface is cleaner, and sometimes screenshots are confusing. Everything else looks great though.efegea said:I'm open to listen ideas and suggestions, and critiques!!
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zaoin
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I would enjoy an only ansi text gui.
gruso
thunderbox
Yay. More details would be great, even just a few bullet points explaining the overall concept and a some of the planned features. I understand that you don't really like showing off unfinished work, but some teaser info would be cool.
More details would be great, even just a few bullet points explaining the overall concept and a some of the planned features. I understand that you don't really like showing off unfinished work, but some teaser info would be cool.
