The author of Calibre claims:
In my opinion, calibre’s graphic interface is damn good [1]
I don't think the author is going to make any strides towards improving/changing the UI
[1]http://features.en.softonic.com/interview-kovid-goyal-creato...
I don't think the author is going to make any strides towards improving/changing the UI
[1]http://features.en.softonic.com/interview-kovid-goyal-creato...
It doesn't follow the fads of our time, and thats fine. I struggle to understand why such a superficial demand is at the top of hacker news.
Asking every useful software project to hire designers so it fits the Apple Guidelines (yes I'm exaggerating) seems both unproductive and more likely to drive the programming endeavor further out of the apartments of inventive people and into VCistan
The interface is an unmitigated disaster from tip to toe. There's too much going on. It doesn't need to get hit with the iBooks stick to make it better; it just needs someone with half a clue to delete half the buttons, tabs, modals, windows, panes, lists, checkboxes, and other crap.
Put another way: Eclipse is not the program you want to base your design on.
Except...the custom is already set.
Most users would rather ignore a program than relearn yet another arbitrary interface when the standard one is good enough.
Probably QT is currently the best way to go but the aesthetic is not solved by the framework alone.
Some frameworks (GNOME in particular) lead to a shit-ton of user-hostile design decisions.
How you use the framework matters a lot. This is where Calibre needs a lot of love. The interface isn't intuitive (I've got v1.25 open now, and ... it's a mess).