[Open-graphics] protocol, file format, and library for PCI analyzer

Peter Lund firefly at vax64.dk
Tue Jan 16 13:15:55 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 12:51 -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:

> This isn't a word processor or web browser.  You're not going to have
> a huge variety of users who want to customize, well, anything.

I personally consider it a failure if a program of mine has a preference
dialog.  It's one thing to automatically attach non-critical metadata to
files that provide hints for how a user would like the file to be
viewed.  Or to have ones program respect the global UI theme.  It's an
entirely different thing to have overt configuration anywhere in a
program.

>   The
> objective is to make it easy and intuitive for an engineer to view PCI
> signals.  There is a minimum of analysis that that the software needs
> to do as well.  It's mostly about presenting the signals clearly and
> making it easy to navigate.

Yep.

> Why is everyone caught up in what color someone wants it to be?

I'm not.

-Peter



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