Comments on: We need a ViewTop Person

Comments on: We need a ViewTop Person

You know... the REBOL/View Viewtop reblets are still pretty cool. Sure, sure, our friend Pekr would say that they are very old and the bytes are worn out. However, they still show some interesting results from very small/clean scripts!

Now, if someone is interested in updating/refreshing some of these reblets or adding new reblets... please let me know (contact me here or on R3 Chat). We can figure out some simple method for you to update the reblets and index.r files.

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JoannaK
6-Jan-2010 2:55:59 Based on my quick experiment those demos seem to work out quite well, but the bigger problem lies on Community Rebsites.. I have not gone trough them all but more than half of those I tested don't work at all and those that do work, some have content I'd not sure if it's relevant or a good to be linked.
Hostile Fork
7-Jan-2010 13:01:44 It does look very dated.
Given that there are already graphic demos written, why not use them to give some pizzaz? When you start up the Viewtop, it could run the "pointilize" effect to dramatically bring a splash screen into view. Further, you could take a cue from Google Nexus One and animate the background in a subtle way while people are browsing the icons.
Why not make clicking the applications reuse the window instead of popping up a new one each time? That would mitigate performance concerns from any wallpaper animation, and also avoid the web "pop up" taboo...
I feel like one of the key points to drive home—that this is being fetched dynamically from the network—is buried. If the esoteric unset-defaulting was axed and instead users were told to type:
viewtop http://rebol.com/index.r

That would be better. (Also, why is it that my Rebol 2.7.7.2.5 on OS/X is not starting in security "ask" mode? Even after +s it's allowing writes to files...)
As for viewing the code, that should be more exposed within the apps themselves. And it needs to be commented to be useful to new users. Perhaps the editor you click could count the number of comment and non-comment lines separately, and let you view with or without them)
I'll suggest of course having this discussion at Talk:The_Rebol_Viewtop on the wiki.

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