Comments on: “A mockup is worth a thousand lines of code”

By: Leandra Pennywell

Leandra Pennywell — Thu, 06 May 2010 06:29:55 +0000

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By: Tha Trackback » Blog Archive » Seilo @ Geeky Ogre » “A mockup is worth a thousand lines of code”

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:05:06 +0000

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By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:12:14 +0000

One suggestion — I think it would look great if you used clutter animations to make switching from one group of days to another, flipping through your journal, have smooth scrolling animations. Also, I noticed that in Hylke Bons’ mockup there are what look calendar entries to the left and right, where the left/right arrows are. I don’t know if he also intended for those to fit in with some kind of scrolling flow, but I think it would look great if it was all part of one animated continuum. Great job, and keep up the good work!

By: sparky11

sparky11 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:57:13 +0000

If you change the date with the calendar, the buttons above the calendar stay disabled (the forward and the today button) Maybe you could make it not get disabled for now, or implement it so it refreshes the state even when you change the date with the calendar.
Also, the day headers seem to be a little brighter than the rest of the Day “box”

Other than that, its looking great!

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:41:32 +0000

That looks awesome, is the idea that you can select an arbitrary set of days with [dragging|shift|alt]+clicking?

By: Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:39:08 +0000

This is looking gorgeous. Congratulations to all involved!

Miguel.

By: Bernd

Bernd — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:41:19 +0000

I think it would be a good idea to talk with the developers from “Project Hamster” to provide similar looking timelines in both applications.

It’s cumbersome to see different layouts and approaches for the same problem in various gnome applications.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:23:20 +0000

Great! but the blue in implementation looks faded, the fonts are worse, and icons make text-alingment look bad (some are wider than the others ([+]) ). Details matter

By: Dylan McCall

Dylan McCall — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:44:46 +0000

Those month dividers look really fuzzy for me.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2117279/FuzzyMonthDivider.png
The current line ends up with a shadow, which you can see if you zoom in on my screenshot. Just not consistent with the sharp edges used elswhere. Perhaps a thinner (or lighter) line would do it. Same deal with the font being used; looks very bulky to me.

(Also, I’m sure you’ve noticed, the month dividers are misaligned. They land one day early)

By: Ulisse

Ulisse — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:38:46 +0000

I found a way to change the color to the right one, but keep in mind that IANAC and my knowledge of Python is just as good as my knowledge of Russian: practically zero!
here is my diff:
change line 99 in daywidgets.py from “color = rc_style.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL]” to “color = rc_style.base[gtk.STATE_NORMAL]”

Maybe you already knew that, and have a good reason to have it in that way, but let me be proud of my first little Python hacking success