[PD] puredata evolution

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

A lot of GUI could be improved without major changes to all of Pd.   
At the very least, it could be included in Pd-extended.  Once this  
version of Pd-extended is released, I still have to turn all the GUI  
tweaks I did into patches and hopefully Miller will accept them.

.hc

On May 28, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Kevin McCoy wrote:

> The gui needs work - do you mean we need more/better looking gui  
> objects?  When I was working on OS X, I couldn't really use very  
> many gui objects at once because of Apple's crappy closed  
> implementation of tcl/tk; the lag was terrible.  Pd devs can't  
> really do anything about that (though it is a huge problem).  A  
> significant portion of pd users are on OS X.
>
> Pd's gui definitely does need work, but without a clear roadmap it  
> will be hard to say what priority that is, right?  Watching that  
> google talk has me thinking about all kinds of things.
>
> Kevin
>
> On 5/28/07, Damian Stewart <damian at frey.co.nz> wrote:
> Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > was it that, what you meant by a 'focus'?
>
> for me, the biggest issue is with the UI. almost none of the points in
> src/notes.txt deal with the GUI, and certainly there is no talk at  
> all of
> gui improvements.
>
> to me the engine works fine - i mean, pd crashes sometimes but this is
> usually due to missing or broken externals than to do with anything  
> in the
> engine.
>
> it is the gui that needs work. i would like to work on this but i  
> don't
> know where to start.
>
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