the written word remains

Thanks to Adam and Ariya the topic is hot now so I couldn't resist commenting it :)
From what I can see, they're trying to:
1) get rid of menus
2) get rid of modal dialogs.
I completely support those two goals. Heh, I should have shown those of you who were in Malaga "kdevelop4geeks.ui" file that has been lying on my desktop for more than a month ;) That file is the concept of KDevelop4 user interface I created before I heard about MS Office 12. First version of it didn't contain menus at all and second included a "Menu" button just where the "File" menu is in MSO12. Other concepts I was playing with were different though. Anyway, most of them were efforts to move most of functionality from dialogs to views inside the main window which coincide with the second effort of MS guys.

Thus said, I have to admit that we should probably not copy their interface, at least not in KDevelop. I've only looked at screenshots so I can be wrong here, but it seems their interface is designed for mouse users. Contrary to that, I'd like to see KDevelop interface completely navigatable by keyboard. More, I'd like to make keyboard navigation the prefferred way over mousing. Therefore it's more likely we have to invent a different UI.

Anyway, I'll try to gather my UI ideas and blog more about them soon.

Those two words pretty much describe my experience of Malaga beach :) The sun was mostly under the clouds but still it was really hot ;) The Mediterranean Sea was great (warm and calm) but too salty to my taste. People, you should come to the Crimea (Ukraine) to the Black Sea cost. The water there is as warm but much cleaner (because there's no sand, only pebble) and also it contains twice less salt ;). Anyway, I enjoyed much swimming in the sea :)

This year KDE conference was harder to attend to but we got a series of nice talks. I particularly enjoyed Richard's talk about bindings and Mirko's walk on the dark side (but that's probably because I've been walking on that dark side for more than a month now). The build system BoF was surprisingly fruitful, there were no disagreements and build systems wars at all.

Today I was once again a tourist and woke up early for a city tour. The tour was pretty interesting but too short for my taste so I decided to continue being a tourist and visited Picasso museum. The museum was pretty impressive, lots of original Picasso's paintings are there. Cool! Also did I mentioned that all his paintings contain naked women? ;) Yes, they do, even on those paintings that at the first look contain only lines and triangles, naked women are drawn :)

Ok, enough blogging, shall get back to hacking because I haven't finished yet qmake support for eclipse. Really, I spend too much time talking, eating, drinking, whatever... The "drinking" part is so huge so I managed to got drunk the day before yesterday and forgot my hat and my bag with a bottle of beer (has anyone seen them?). Oh, shame... how much drunk was I to forget a bottle of beer? ;)