GUI Generators

[PicassoCT]

Are basically editors.. which generate a constant time slower gui. I know.
This Thread is not about them.

This thread is about the continental drift of constantly developing software, causing the houses (GUIs) that build upon them to rattle, doors to be useless and function to be disjunct.
So i asked myself, cant a machine do that.


First lets list what we got:
User Expectations, which are pretty constant, and only changing as the user gains Experience. Also, they can be measured and shared.



And we have old features, that fall into disrepair (or are replaced) and new features added. Old features have to be removed fromt the GUI and replaced with Options or Optiongroups that other users use as replacement

So instead of config hell - that allready presumes knowledgeable users.. you would gain something like this.



And would only have to add this to the meneue options list.
Okay, and you would need a user-experience-database. With a startup gui.
But it would definately not break that often.
And i presume i m again not the first and something like this existed?

[PicassoCT]

Would this be doable with chilli by the way?

[gajop]

Would this be doable with chilli by the way?

Probably. No idea what this is as usual.

[PicassoCT]

Would this be doable with chilli by the way?

Probably. No idea what this is as usual.

A gui, whos options are selected via a average of the buttons the users of a similar experience used, and then auto-adapts the buttons to what the user uses the most?
Left line of buttons (blue) are single commands or options.
Pink are Options grouped by functionality -
Light blue on the right is a optionlist, sorted by useage- those that allready show.
Red button rearranges the gui, based upon usage and estimated exp-level.
Green sets it back, to a previous option field.

This is the stuff you come up with, if you are able to think critical about even the endavours you take part in. If you try to solve stuff by more then football-team flagwaving.
Its called constructive criticism, you propably never heard of it.