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suggestions for Pollen GUI app? #44

Closed mbutterick closed 2 years ago

mbutterick commented 4 years ago

As a way of learning a little about Racket’s GUI library, I’m working on a small app for handling certain Pollen operations without the command line (for instance, running the project server).

This isn’t going to become the primary interface to Pollen. But it might be useful to people who don’t spend a lot of time on the command line.

Suggestions welcome for functionality that would be useful.

otherjoel commented 4 years ago

A GUI app should be able to provide most of the same functionality as raco pollen commands. So, maybe:

I’m having a hard time thinking of what a GUI app could give me that is difficult in the command line though. Maybe quick restarts in cases where that is needed (for instance, after editing a pagetree file)?

odanoburu commented 4 years ago

Pollen has great potential for building textual DSLs, because it makes implementing them very easy. Some of the users of these DSLs might not be comfortable with CLIs, so I think that any GUI app that's easy to install and allows users to have a WYSIWYG experience would be nice to have! we have pollen-rock already, but I don't how easy it is to install (and it's not native).

odanoburu commented 4 years ago

now that I think of it (and it's obvious in retrospect) what I would like to see for beginners might be implemented on top of DrRacket; just adding a preview file button or something similar would be nice! some way of hiding DrRacket functionality that might be scary would be nice too, but could be difficult to implement and maintain.

otherjoel commented 4 years ago

Just thought of something. It would be nice to have some help managing and linking to images (or any other type of binary asset) in a Pollen project. Things like: