Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

[Richmond]

On 10/05/15 20:56, Mark Waddingham wrote:
>>> I am not aware of any goal that RunRev has forgotten in any of their
>>> posts on this topic.
>>
>> New GUI.
>
> Definitely not forgotten! Indeed, the Version 8 IDE sees the first 
> step towards it as we are rewriting it to use much more easily 
> composed widgets.
>
> Ultimately a brand new GUI is going to be a hugely disruptive for all 
> those which are familiar with the current one we have (big changes in 
> UI always are) so we want to get it write.

Indeed.

So, surely, the clever thing would be to give end-users a choice of GUI: 
the "old" one or the new one.

Richmond.

>
> Version 8 is where we ensure we have the architecture to do it right 
> by reposing what we currently have in a better way; we can then 
> subsequently make greater shifts.
>