bulia byak wrote:

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done." This means that if a decision is between more users or easier for developers, I say we take the easier for developers option.

Choices of this kind are fortunately rare. Normally we can all focus on our areas of interest (e.g. the usability for me or program internals for you) without stepping on each other's toes.

Yep.

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In this case it means using gtkmm _despite_ it not being available in large quantities.

I'm no expert but I got the impression that gtkmm availability is being resolved, so the point is moot.

Yep.

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In this case it means not holding back a feature because it makes the windows port hard.

Can you give an example of such a feature?

No idea, it's just an example of the sort of decision we have to make.

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In this case it means throwing away a large chunk of UI code because it was clumsy.

Are you referring to the spiral tool? If so, what's so clumsy about it?

No, I was more thinking of throwing away big things, like toolboxs and gradient dialogs :)

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Otherwise we will decend to the point where all we are doing is minor tweaks to the about box... :-)

_Someone_ must do these tweaks, too.

Yes, but we shouldn't feel that we can't do big things. That is my point.

I think we are in violent agreement... Hop on jabber sometime :-)

njh