A Widescreen Blender-Style Interface

tommylight wrote: All this talk is doing nothing towards getting those beautiful pictures Brenda made to an actual usable GUI for our dearly beloved Linuxcnc.
Maybe it is just me, but i see no reason for dragging this to the extent that users get bored and move on to using whatever they were using before this. I am one of those users, reading this thread every day, several times a day for nearly 2 months now, just to find some .......well useless ....whatever. Sorry but i do not know how to name most of what is going on here lately.
This would have gone much better if those pictures ( sorry for calling them pictures, but that is all they are right now ) that Brenda spent huge amounts of time designing were already uploaded here and we ( i am looking at you KCJ ) had the chance to start making something with them, do some testing, make it usable and actually see what is working and what needs to be done to make it almost perfect.
Thank you for all the hard work.
P.S.
Admins, if you think any of this is inappropriate, please do delete this post. Thank you.

my bad, apologies to all!

hmmmmm the plot thickens


Careful what you say guys, that report button may get used.

If what I might have done so far will mean anything, then let me finish what I started. I Have to be done with this in a month or two, and I am leaning toward finishing in less than one.

Tommylight, are you not asking one contributor to circumvent another?
If I have an issue, it's not with the level of compliment paid, it is about common respect.

If people go around me, when my proposal is 7:11 done, it may send a message to others, that a LinuxCNC contributor should not ask for the opinions of others, should not be considerate of the needs of the users.

Lcvette wrote: my bad, apologies to all!

No need for apologies, it was not intended to end the discussion, just to nudge it to the right direction.
I am sorry if it came through like that.

BrendaEM wrote: Tommylight, are you not asking one contributor to circumvent another?

NO!

Thank you, Tommy.

My wish is to continue making the the few remaining menus, and submit my proposal to the LinuxCNC community, before forks from the my designs are counter proposed. It is also my wish to lead this design until then. There is a difference between a suggestion and a counter-proposal, and there will be plenty of time for those after I am done. When I am done, I won't even defend this design. In fact, I likely won't be able to work on it.

People comment on how the interface looks, well I've merged a lot of ideas. I've come up with a way of displaying a few controls. One of those has only been improved upon recently.

I feel that the strongest thing I bring here: is just taking the time to come up with an interface as a system, and that has taken time. In the end, the programmers will have to make changes. If I am successful, this will not be the last interface in this series, but I strongly feel that it would be to LinuxCNC's advantage to have a complete outline before writing or in this case programing the book.

I think that the most time-efficient way to do things: is to already know what to do, and if what I will propose what to do is not the right thing to do, then why not let me show you the pitfalls.