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PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

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Re: PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

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Post by jshmrsn »

Looks pretty nice overall for sure. But, I would give the feedback that the non-uniform scaling of UI controls is a very uncommon animation behavior, and will feel out of place on any OS that I’m familiar with. In general, the animations feel a bit over eager and in the “for show” tuning instead of “clarify what state transition is happening” tuning. Generally when scaling large panels like that, you’ll want to not scale down below 60% and combine that with being at zero transparency at that scale so you can’t focus to clearly on the odd details of the scaled UI.

Re: PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

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Post by realtalk667 »

i absolutely despise everything about this 'look'. the way the interface does that 'horizontal stretch' animation, the way the 'save success' is a huge green bar in the middle of the screen that you would no doubt see again and again and again, the way how everything is just text sitting in a giant field of empty white space.

the feel of this stuff reminds me of way back when, maybe windows 95 era, when you would install some kind of OEM software from the manufacturer of the computer, and it would open up, and the software would look so busted, like there was MINIMAL effort whatsoever in making it look 'good', like they didn't have a graphics team and the person who coded the firmware had to do the graphics too at the last second. that feels like this stuff.

Re: PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

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Post by billfruit »

The small amout of time I spent with JavaFX was productive, I wish it was more popular. It was a viable alternative to QT for cross platform desktop GUI apps, but I do get a feeling that its future is uncertain with it getting unbundled from the Oracle JDK. I don't really get why AWT and Swing get to be first class citizens of "core" Java while JavaFX which is the best approach to build GUIs in Java cannot be.

Re: PrettyZoo: Pretty Nice Zookeeper GUI

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Post by benreesman »

It’s nice to see some ZK stuff on the front page. It’s not written in Go or part of Docker’s story or any other headline-grabbing thing, but it’s rock solid as these things go and is much more widely used (especially at companies with legitimate scaling problems) than you’d think from reading HN.
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