New Smart GUI

[Frode Petersen]

Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On 8/2/07, linux_learner <linux.learner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Currently, the only way to do configurations in smart, is from the command
>> line. I wish to make this more intuitive.
> 
> Still, this belongs to Edit / Preferences like the rest of the world has it.
> 
>> As far as the menu, I just renamed it, and clustered like things together.
> 
> Didn't check the menu.
> 
>> As far as the tabbed boxes, again, that's to make things a bit more
>> intuitive. So there would be 2 ways. From the menu, or from the tabbed
>> boxes.
> 
> Haven't seen an application where configuration is a tab in the main
> window. Doesn't make much sense to me. An average man in the street
> does not want to know about configuration. It's the admin's job to
> configure software and exposing configuration in the main window does
> everything but enchances the GUI.

I hope you don't mean that config should remain a command line only 
thing? ;-)

It would be nice to have it in the gui, though under 'Edit.preferences'.

Frode

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