pyZui - anyone know about this?

[Daniel Fetchinson]

/home/fetchinson/pyzui/pyzui/tilestore.py:22: DeprecationWarning: the

Yeah, I'd noticed that. It's fixed in the repository now.

Great, thanks, pulled it and all looks good.

Cheers,
Daniel

 

[Terry Reedy]

Thanks. That gives me something to go on. Wikipedia didn't like my search
terms.

Ever since Corel Draw in the 90's zoomed into my life I have been in love with
the idea of an endless canvas that makes me feel like a satellite on a bungee
cord. I think it would fit the desktop very well.

Personally I see a merging of normal app windows and a zui: some kind of new
window manager.

The original idea, perhaps, was from Jef Raskin in The Human Interface.
Wikipedia has articles on both. His idea was for a document rather than
app centric plain. Not clear how one would pipe data from app to app in
his model, though.

tjr

 

[Donn]

His idea was for a document rather than
app centric plain.

These days I find the notion of monolithic apps to be a pita.
The concept of many small black boxes (but open source) that each do a single
job and pipe in/out is so much more powerful. I don't see why everything in a
gui and down can't be such a box. Then we get to wire them together as needed.
We'd still have 'big apps' but they would be constructed more loosely and we
could adapt them to fit real life needs.

I dunno. I think big apps are dinosaurs. As much as I love Inkscape and
Blender and others, they are all islands with vast gulfs between them.

And let's have Python glue them all together!

Not clear how one would pipe data from app to app in
his model, though.

The picture I have of it is illustrated by Blender's material node system.
have a look at this pic:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Working_with_Nodes_Blender.PNG
Just a mental jump-off point. Think bash meets zui with a Python driving.

\d