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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 19:56:55 -0600
From: Don Yacktman <don@darth.byu.edu>
Subject: Re: Putting some of the palettes together
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> > Just wondering if anyone has thought about or already put
> > together some of the palettes.
I have thought about this...
> I'm all for it. In fact I don't know why we shouldn't aim for
> getting as many things as possible onto one palette only.
I'm not all for it. I am for "consolidation with care". I have two
reasons for this, and here they are:
(1) Organization. I'd like to segregate the palettes by
functions. Like objects could be consolidated, but when
different objects are being dealt with, I'd like to keep them
separate. Having more palettes means more buttons up above,
but having a big palette makes it hard to find things too.
Either way you're playing with scrollers to find the item you
want to get at, and the multi-palette way is easier for me,
at least, to find things. I have icons to direct me towards
what I'm looking for. I may be the only one who likes those
icons, but like them I do.
(So while some consolidation is probabaly a good idea, it is
pretty easy IMHO to go overboard with it.)
(2) Administration nightmares. When an author improves or
changes their palette project, they send me a new version of
the whole thing. I try it out and if it works I drop it into
the kit, and that's that. Quite easy to deal with. If I
start consolidating submissions from multiple authors on a
single palette, I have to check against dependencies in
individual files, merge them together, and so on--I can't
just do a "drop the new one into place" any more. There is
a difference between dropping a folder versus several files
into a folder. Plus paying attention to files that should
be removed, making changes in the PB.project, etc. That
increases my workload a _lot_. CVS could probably help a
little here, but I'm not accustomed to using it, and that
would just be one more thing to install and learn. And few of
the submitters use CVS either, so that is problematic. At the
moment, I'm way behind on the MiscKit as it is, and adding
one more level of complexity at my end scares the willies out
of me. I'm trying to make my job as easy as I can so that I
can get more done! Obviously, improvements here could be
made, but my biggest worry is that I know I can't do this
forever. When the time comes I need to have this process
down so that it is easy enough that someone else will be
willing to do the work and not be afraid of losing 20+ hours
a week or some other crazy amount of time. So anything that
complicate administration is a bad thing in this case. I try
to make the administration _not_ influence the kit much since
I don't want my constraints to dampen creativity, but this is
a case where I think I'll have to let administration be just
a little bit intrusive. I don't plan to make a habit of that;
I want my administration to be as silent and smooth going as
possible so we can all get down to doing real work...
OK, so that's my violent spewing forth of fright on #2, but I
think the point still holds. With the current submission
policies, I think that the separate palettes is a good way to
go. I can consolidate some of mine--like the log sliders and
circular sliders--but we have to be careful about where
things are put. I'm open to suggestions of what you think needs
consolidation, but we really need to be careful with these sorts
of changes. By the way, the CoolButtons thing has many obsolete
buttons now with Sean's sound palette. There's a definite clean
up to do there...when I get the time...Ack!
---
Later,
-Don Yacktman
Don_Yacktman@byu.edu