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[Vincent Wiencek <vwiencek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Philipp Heckel <philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Vincent,
>
> I looked a bit at the GUI stuff and I have a few remarks/questions:
>
> *Packages*
> - I like the util package and that you split the plugin-gui packages. Do
> you think it makes sense to have a folder syncany-plugins, with sub-folder
> syncany-plugin-ftp, and syncany-plugin-ftp-gui, etc.?
>

Indeed it will be cleaner to regroup plugins project


>
> *Code convention/formatting*
> - I realize that this your GUI code is experimental, so your main focus is
> probably trying out things, but I wanted to make sure that once you feel
> that something will stay that way, to follow our newly created coding
> styles: https://github.com/binwiederhier/syncany/wiki/Coding-Style
> - It contains stuff like: longer method/variable names, no Singletons, no
> abbreviations, JavaDocs, Eclipse code formatter, etc.
>
>
Ok, I'll look at it


> *Complex 'on-tray-click' panel*
> - I think I can warm up to the idea of a complex panel (such as the
> Dropbox Windows panel, although I would aim for something simpler for the
> first iteration. The worst thing to do is to do many things half-baked. We
> have to concentrate on the basics for now. It's hard, but necessary. If you
> want to make a complex panel, go for it, but it must work and look awesome
> :-)
>
>
Ok, I would like to test whether this kind of things could be achievable in
Swing


> *Tray Icon*
> - You're using some random icon in the tray
> - You can use the ones from 2011 if you want to:
> https://github.com/binwiederhier/syncany/tree/gradle/syncany-assets/artwork
>
>
ok


> *WebSockets*
> - It's really great that you already implemented the WebSockets stuff with
> the JSON messages. A few remarks:
> - The GUI still seems to be polling for updates. WebSockets are fully two
> way, so you can use WSClient.send() to push changes
>
>
I was trying to figure a good way to identify clients communicating with
the web socket server in order to push right messages to right clients
(i.e.. no wild broadcasting) ; but sure it is full 2-way signal.


> *Swing:*
> - I modified the Look and Feel to GtkLookAndFeel and it looks okay for the
> most part.
> - However:
>  + The AWT/Tray Icon looks ugly as hell (no transparency, and if they were
> menus believe me you wouldn't want them there.
>  + The "Browse Folder" dialog in Swing is also really ugly in Linux
> - Here are some screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/v81p7
>

ach mein Got !

>
>
> *Wireframing*
> - Have you done any wireframing? If not, I can help and draw what I had in
> mind?
> - Also: I found some old wireframes from February 2011 (!!) that might be
> useful, or not :-)
>   --> "Pencil" file:
> https://raw.github.com/binwiederhier/syncany/ad0fcd26e407757d6ec5892e82969bb95402fd69/syncany-assets/documentation/UI%20Design%20Mockup.ep
>
> *SWT*
> - Have you tried the SWT stuff yet? I thought about it and I think that we
> should go with SWT.
> - For some reasons, the binaries are not in the official maven repository,
> but there is a repo here: http://code.google.com/p/swt-repo/
> - For Gradle, maybe something like this:
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/8815287/1440785
> - An awesome tutorial: http://www.vogella.com/articles/SWT/article.html
>


I'll switch ; the best IDE ever gui library can't be wrong !


>
>
> Best
> Philipp
>
> PS: I'll answer the other mails tomorrow (Saturday).
>
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Vincent Wiencek
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