Re: Interface localization ?

[David Chisnall]

On 23 Nov 2007, at 20:00, Nicolas Roard wrote:

> On Nov 23, 2007 7:45 PM, Pete French <pete@twisted.org.uk> wrote:
> > > I wouldn't do that either. It's like writing a master thesis in  
> > > LATeX
> >
> > ttoally off topic, but LaTeX is prertty much a requirement in  
> > academia
> > in the UK still (?!). I thought it had vanished, but my flatmate had
> > a job editing papers for journals and it is all required to be  
> > submitted
> > in LaTeX. erp!
>
> Frankly I wouldn't want to write a paper or thesis in anything else
> than LaTeX...
> Not that we couldn't have great graphical tools for that; but we don't
> right now.

I'd love to have written my thesis or my book in something better than  
LaTeX.  I fully intend to abandon it as soon as something better exists.

Back on-topic, something like LaTeX for GUI design would be great.   
Currently, we have two options for GNUstep:

- Gorm, which is like FrameMaker.  You lay out your page (app) exactly  
as you want it to appear to the end user.
- Renaissance, which is like HTML.  You lay out your app roughly with  
some markup and hope it will look how you wanted it.

The ideal solution would be something like LaTeX, where you define the  
interactions you need, and it pulls in 40 years of HCI research to  
design a beautiful UI that embodies these interactions, with a  
\documentclass equivalent so you could make it conform to a set of  
predefined platform HIGs.  Unfortunately, I haven't yet decided  
whether designing such a system is impossible or just really, really  
hard.

David

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