Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "gui"

A interesting Touch Interface Concept for Mobiles

Wednesday, 25. November 2009, 22:39:50

A month ago i wrote a post about the interesting interface idea of 10/GUI. Today i found an interesting Touch Interface concept for Mobiles: Emblaze's First Else

More details about it can be found at Engadget or at the Else website.

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10/GUI - Reinvented Human-Computer Interaction

Tuesday, 13. October 2009, 13:01:49

gui, multitouch, usability, desktop ...

A very interesting vision of desktop human-computer interaction:

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GIMP 2.8 going for a single Window Solution

Saturday, 19. September 2009, 11:30:14

PSD, gui, xcf, 2.7 ...

There is a lot of discussion this time about a real single-window GIMP at the development list. Peter Sikking which is one of the heads behind GUI improvements of GIMP created a nice proposal which includes anything i dreamed of! Real good work Peter!

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Nice new Interface of Firefox 4.0

Tuesday, 28. July 2009, 20:41:25

css, linux, firefox, websites ...

A first view of possible interface changes of Firefox 4 are available. May they look very simliar to Safari 4 and Opera 10 but i really like these first steps:

I do not know why they choose the ugly Vista screen first but may there is the userbase of the future.

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The new Blender UI?

Thursday, 13. November 2008, 13:31:38

rendering, gui, ui, game ...

William Reynish has updated hsi UI paper for Blender 2.5. He presented it the first time at the Blender Conference this year in Amsterdam. He collected all the feedback and clarifies some unclear parts.
A very interesting analysis of the existing interface and a very good idea of a new at all. For those that like to get a screeny check out page 24 but don't forget to read it all

» The Evolution of Blenders User Interface (PDF)

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What is a good UI?

Thursday, 6. November 2008, 20:41:11

gui, software, ui, development ...

What is intuitive and easy to use interface? Is a better interface always a different solution of existing standards? The IT news website Golem interviewed Aza Raskin, which is since August this year "Head of User Experience" at the Mozilla Labs.

Instant Messenger Icons

Saturday, 25. October 2008, 20:21:36

usability, design, inkscape, gui ...

There is an interesting summery and comparison about instant messenger icons by Chris Szeto. If you are interested in icons, GUI design and usability you should definitly check out GUIdebook and "10 Mistakes in Icon Design" by Denis Kortunov.

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Wine Photoshop page

Monday, 31. March 2008, 19:10:42

PSD, image editor, vista, gui ...

Many people ask "What's the smoothest way running Photoshop on Linux? How you get it?" - the answer is easy: Check out the Wine Wiki: Running Adobe Photoshop on Wine

You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.

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Cheers! Wine 0.9.57

Friday, 7. March 2008, 22:14:14

vista, image editor, PSD, Photoshop ...

The Wine development is fast these days, again a new version is available. The good news for design and 3d people are "Support for multiple OpenGL pixel formats" and "Improved support for color profiles".
If you using Ubuntu there is a repository and a .deb packages archive to get the newest version.

You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.

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Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

Friday, 22. February 2008, 23:36:08

vista, image editor, PSD, gui ...

Google has hired Codeweavers, which are the leaders of the Wine project and offering commercial services around it. Codeweavers should add better support for Photoshop on Linux. Since Wine 0.9.54 there are much improvements that let running Photoshop CS2 under Wine. This patches has nice side effects, so Flash 8 is working well too.
If you using Ubuntu there is a repository and a .deb packages archive to get the newest version.

You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.

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A new bottle of Wine: 0.9.54

Sunday, 27. January 2008, 21:53:22

PSD, image editor, vista, gui ...

A new version of Wine is released, besides the usual fixes and D3D improvements it shipped with a better support for Photoshop CS2: "...Photoshop CS/CS2 should now work, please help us testing it...".
If you using Ubuntu there is a repository and a .deb packages archive to get the newest version.

You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.

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Cheers! Wine 0.9.52

Sunday, 30. December 2007, 10:17:50

PSD, image editor, vista, gui ...

Jep, they did it again - a new Version of Wine is available. Again with improvements and bugfixes. Besides the added support for the "My Network Places" shell folder there are two things important for artists/ designers using Photoshop on Linux:
* Improved graphics tablet support
* Fixes for some longstanding screen depth issues

Better support for Photoshop CS2 and CS3 is aimed by the developers too, read this posts and write your own problems down there:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4001494
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c05a212
If you using Ubuntu there is a repository and a .deb packages archive to get the newest version.

You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.

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