Girder where is it heading now

[Ron]

Since January 2002 Girder has seen a huge overhaul, most of its internal code has been rewritten and cleaned up. I feel that internally Girder is working almost perfectly ( perfection cannot be acheived, though humanity tries :-) ). As far as the internals are concerned we are already at Girder 4.0. However the GUI is still at the state it was 2 years ago. In bad shape. I had hoped to get some work done on it this summer, but high workload at college and the internal changes in Girder kept me busy.

This time I'm going to get it right though, I'm taking a class "Userinterface Design". I'm trying to get Girder to be my final project for that class. I'll be working on that with a friend of mine, no coding only thinking what would be good.... If the results we get are good I'm sure to implement them. We are planning to release the final paper on this on Girder.nl.

One of the parts of Userinterface design is a usergroup that is willing to test and give feedback on ideas that we come up with, so I'm going to be using you guys as the guinea pigs (http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=guinea+pig&r=3). I'll keep you informed on this, the prof. in principle agreed to this proposal but he wanted to know what Girder was/did, :lol:

[vynce]

Sounds cool. I'm looking forward to testing a new interface 8)

[Ron]

I got the final approval from the Prof, so I'll be doing some user interface thinking for the next girder version! ( that does not mean that Girder 4.0 will be released any time soon though ;-) )

[levyshay]

Cool!
I'm willing to test also.
I just hope that you don't stop working on girder after you finish your college :-)

Shay Levy.

[JSMain]

Me too! Me too! :D

[Ron]

The first things that will be made are prototype interfaces, these are interfaces that have no functionality. On those I might ask your feedback.

[josjojo]

I'm willing to look at the new GUI too, but has it a high priority? Girder is not a program where it's GUI is important. Functionality is more important.

It's nice you can make the GUI as a final project. I'm studying 'Hogere Informatica' (how do you translate that?), but I could not choose a class where you learn how to make GUIs.

I'm very interested in your final paper. In what language will you write the paper?

[Ron]

Whoooaaa,.. not my final project, just a final project for a class. :-) I'm an applied physics student, my final project will be research in plasma etching.

[josjojo]

Whoooaaa,.. not my final project, just a final project for a class. :-)

I knew that :roll: !

[Ron]

ooooh sorry ;-)

[josjojo]

In what language will you write the paper?

[Ron]

Both my final thesis and the paper for this project will be English.