UI Feedback Wanted

[Uli Kusterer]

On 01.09.2007, at 19:09, Alan Smith wrote:
> I'm writing an application that will have many plugins, displayed in a
> table on the left, and each plugin will have a set of users, displayed
> in a table on the right. The view provided by each plugin is displayed
> in the middle. My question is, how would you do this? The way I'm
> currently doing it, which you can see in the screenshot, can take up a
> lot of screen real-estate and I don't like that. Previously I would
> have put the users table in a drawer but those have more or less died.
> Any ideas?

  Errr... what screenshot?

  Also, can you give us some more information on what your app will  
actually do, and what those "users" are? I'd think that showing your  
info as a graph (where plugins may add one or more nodes in the  
graph, as boxes with custom content, custom icons or whatever makes  
sense) might be a better idea here. FWIW, I also count a design like  
an automator workflow as a graph, because it's a very simple one with  
nodes showing UI elements.

  Would something like that fit your app?

  By the way, there's a Mac-GUI-Dev mailing list at <http:// 
groups.yahoo.com/group/mac-gui-dev/> that may be a better venue to  
discuss things like this.

> // Things I've said -------------------------
> "Maturity resides in the mind."
> "Silence is the Universe's greatest gift."
> "When the World realizes that personal beliefs are not something to
> argue or fight over, it shall evolve."

  I think you're the first person I've seen who quotes himself ... :-p

Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de