From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: ... and now for something completely different: User Friendliness
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 19:19:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bs2zh0te.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u1grq2tb.fsf@hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de>
Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:
> That depends. Define
>
> gnus-wizard-look-for-nntp-server
> gnus-wizard-look-for-pop3-server
> gnus-wizard-look-for-spool-file
>
> and
>
> (gnus-wizard-get-nntp-server-from-user &opt proposed-server)
> (gnus-wizard-get-pop-server-from-user &opt proposed-server)
>
> ...
>
> And stuff already looks much better.
Even when defining a *lot* of functions, I think it'll be quite
tiring to write, and even worse to maintain...
>> The other question is -- how to render the user interface? Again,
>> Customize has lots of stuff for that, and might be a likely
>> contender. The other is HTML and w3. Any other ideas?
>
> Whatever you do, remember that there are other systems then
> Linux/FreeBSD running Gnus, e.g. MacOS or Windows. Your solution should
> work on those systems, too so I'd still vote for a wizard in Emacs Lisp,
> asking the user in Minibuffer and some explanation on what he should
> input in a buffer above.
Oh, both the wizard parser and the rendering thing will be in Emacs
Lisp. I'm just talking about which languages to define the wizard
config files is, and what rendering language to use.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-02 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-02 7:37 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-02 10:11 ` Frank Schmitt
2003-01-02 18:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2003-01-02 19:29 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-01-02 19:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-02 22:10 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-01-06 16:05 ` Wes Hardaker
2003-01-07 5:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-07 15:27 ` Wes Hardaker
2003-01-08 4:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-08 6:31 ` Wes Hardaker
2003-01-08 15:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-01-11 20:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-13 0:44 ` Wes Hardaker
2003-01-13 18:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-13 19:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
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