I think we should create GUI ourselves unless you have serious reasons to
give someone else this work. Otherwise it is going to take too much time to
get GUI something. Yet if your friends could provide us with a decent basic
set of icons and images in a month or so it would be really, really great.
It just kills me, you know, when creating a couple of new controls I find
myself desperately out of resources. By the way, besides from button icons
we need icons for nodes in the data map browsers (DataMap, ObjEntity,
ObjRelationship, ObjAttribute, DbEntity, DbAttribute, PrimaryKey, Table,
View), icons for tabs (containing the browsers), icons for queries (maybe
different for Select, Update, Insert, Delete) and more, I guess. As for the
GUI tool, I cannot recall how we called it so I keep work name "Cayenne
Modeler". It will be easy to change it if any. BTW we need the frame icon as
well.
Anyway, let's see what your friends can do with those you plan to propose
them for work. I hope we are going to get really consistent and professional
interface.
Andriy
> From your previous email (and actually from our meeting with Misha some
> time back) I figured that all we need is images for the buttons.
>
> I thought I should discuss this strategy shift with everybody. Thinking
> about it, I can see 2 approaches to GUI tools:
>
> 1. write it ourselves (just getting the graphics from the friendly artist)
> 2. write it overseas according to our spec.
>
> Originally we took an approach somewhere in between 1 & 2 (friendly
graphic
> artists also create screen prototypes). The more I think about it, the
more
> I doubt this will work. Approach 1 or 2 maybe... (with 2 actually costing
> some money)
>
> Anyway I want your thoughts on that. In the meantime I will probably ask
> those guys to work on
>
> 1. Object Style logo
> 2. Cayenne Logo
> 3. Splash startup screen for the GUI tool (do you remember what name we
> came up with for it?)
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