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kgn · 07-21-2010, 06:38 PM

cfp - you come across to me as a corporate developer. I am a programmer/developer also, and have been for 40 years. I would have to strongly disagree with a lot of your interface design statements.

There are design standards for Windows applications (specified by Microsoft, of course!). But these are guidelines, nothing more. Since I develop in nothing but Windows, some of the interface issues in Calibre irk me a little. Unless I really have to, I will not use a java application for pretty much the same reason - it is just not 'Windows standard'.

I am very forgiving when it comes to Calibre though - I fully realize that it is cross platform - so I understand the problems. It is also written in Python - I image the available tools/libraries for that would be more limited - again - I understand. But having said all that - Calibre has done a really good job of satisfying the most people.

So - I suggest that you are not as good at interface design as you might think. A lot of this stuff is personal opinion -and of course we all have one of those!

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kgn Groupie Posts: 171 Karma: 94 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Brisbane, Australia Device: Pocketbook 302	cfp - you come across to me as a corporate developer. I am a programmer/developer also, and have been for 40 years. I would have to strongly disagree with a lot of your interface design statements. There are design standards for Windows applications (specified by Microsoft, of course!). But these are guidelines, nothing more. Since I develop in nothing but Windows, some of the interface issues in Calibre irk me a little. Unless I really have to, I will not use a java application for pretty much the same reason - it is just not 'Windows standard'. I am very forgiving when it comes to Calibre though - I fully realize that it is cross platform - so I understand the problems. It is also written in Python - I image the available tools/libraries for that would be more limited - again - I understand. But having said all that - Calibre has done a really good job of satisfying the most people. So - I suggest that you are not as good at interface design as you might think. A lot of this stuff is personal opinion -and of course we all have one of those!