Jim Dean Sage     Posts: 3433 Joined: 3/13/2006 Location: L'ville, GA  User Profile | My opinion fwiw … I for one LIKE the current GUI (minus a few very small glitches). And, some changes made in the past few years have in my opinion been pretty much a waste of effort - notably the fancy FL formatting that was implemented about 4-5 years ago IIRC. For me, what’s important is removing bugs and glitches. That’s top priority. Barry well knows there are plenty of things I’ve documented that have not yet been fixed. I would truly WORRY if N undertook a major GUI upgrade. My guess is that it’s a 50/50 chance that it might end up being worse. And even if it was conceptually better, for sure there would be a whole new crop of bugs and glitches to iron out. And, the aggravation of having to re-learn where things are, and sequences of clicks to get things done. Another common downfall of GUI upgrades often is that some things which used to be possible somehow vanish away, because of oversight or because someone thought they were improving things. So, my vote is PLEASE DO NOT DO A REDESIGN of the GUI. Tweak it, fine. Fix the omissions and glitches, fine. But please don’t put yourselves and the users through the long and painstaking process of rebuilding, relearning, re-debugging, and re-documenting. And btw - someone earlier suggested that fixing the GUI is the easy kind of programming. NOT SO. I’ve been programming actively since 1967, and I can tell you that creating a good GUI is much more time consuming than creating or improving an internal algorithm. Especially when you add in the need to replace documentation and training videos, etc. It ain’t broke, so please don’t change it. [Edited by Jim Dean on 3/30/2021 10:27 AM] | |
