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Originally Posted by luketheobscure
Must... Not... Respond.... GAH!
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I wrote that I hated it, but I'd still encourage you to forge on. It wasn't meant as an attack on your efforts, nor a defense of the current UI. I wrote those words because it's vitally important to me that search functionality and width for columns not be reduced. Even one more click for search is a significant interference with how I use it.
I don't feel at all strongly that the current interface is the best, nor do I have any particular resistance to changing it - it merely needs to be change for the better. Moreover, I agree that beauty and functionality are not mutually exclusive. I almost never use the tag browser, the icons or the cover browser, so my ideal UI will be significantly different from most other users.
If you are going to change the interface, you'll definitely need to be ready for lots of negative comments, but if you can glean the best from all comments, learn how the UI is actually used over multiple OSs, and convince Kovid your changes are an improvement, they will be adopted.
Actually improving the UI is not going to be easy, but it's not impossible.