MorphOS Developer
Posts: 2971 from 2003/3/5
From: Canada
Quote:
ppcamiga1 wrote:
Unix with Amiga gui and graphics still may have a chance.
MUI is nice lightweight gui many devs will try it if avaible on unix.
Except it isn’t. As someone who actually authored a Windows app based on a MUI clone (same layout concepts, AskMinMax and co) I can tell you that this is a dead end. It’s not just the fact that you need something that plays nicely with 3D, you also do not want a MUI like layouter because of its performance. It’s quite hard to make window resizing smooth with the askminmax approach for example. Another isssue is that your UX guys think in HTML and its hard to explain limitations of MUI to them. Relational positioning of UI elements is simply more flexible than MUI’s grouping of objects.
Ah and the app has had over 1M real users at its peak, it wasn’t some hobby project.
[ Edited by jacadcaps 21.09.2019 - 11:04 ]
