Widescreen-Touch User Interface Proposal by BrendaEM

Brenda you have done a great job on designing the front panels. I'm very impressed with your work.

I'm not one hundred percent sure how you were planning on getting some code put behind the panels to make a fully functional gui, but at times great gui front panel designer needs knowledgeable programmers to make things come to life. Unfortunately those programmers may not have the time required to do the work and perhaps may not even see the need to develop a new gui.

LinuxCnc has a good number of functional gui's built in, but functional does not mean that they are a pleasure to use. Thus new gui's are always being developed for that reason. Your proposal, if it can be completed to be a functional gui will reduce the need for custom gui development work in the future. This will allow more time for actually using our machines for machining work.

If possible I would like to have access to your files to look at potentially helping in getting some code behind the panels. I have never seen a way to download the files.

BrendaEM wrote: Though, I worry that anyone joining my effort will meet as much resistance as I did.

Have you met resistance? I haven't seen any, but perhaps I have not seen all the discussions on all forums.

Hi Brenda,
I am sure if you publish your work files there will be HUGE interest and work from many people to make it real working project.
Also, LinuxCNC will became a more 'modern' regarding user interface !!
So, PLEASE publish ( upload ) your work and files to linuxcnc files and don't listen 'bad' people ....
There still nice and professional people on the LCNC community !! They will continue your work on programming level.
Thank you for your work !!

I had hoped to export the icons to suit a programmer's needs.
But I can upload the source. SVG somewhere, but where?
I wish LinuxCNC had some kind of file storge situation, now that MS owns github.

For weeks there was little response here, also.

Anyway, to start, I will .zip up the source, and serve it from dropbox, for now. That will be done by the end of this weekend.

I or someone will have to export the icons in various sizes. The issue is: without a programmer, I don't know if all the icons need exporting, yes the drawing ones do, but I am not sure if the text ones do, if I am making things too complicated for both myself and the programmer.

BTW, 648 people saw the proposal, so far.
I wrote to Hackaday.com, asking of they would run a story. Crossing my fingers, because there's a lot of programmers who also visit that site.

You could zip it and save it on the linuxcnc wiki too

Chris M

or zip it and add it here?

Chris M