From: Tsume <tsumeruby@...>
Date: 2006-02-19T02:24:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Desktop apps written in Ruby?

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 23:25 +0900, Gregory Brown wrote:
> On 2/18/06, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/18/06, Tsume <tsumeruby@tsumelabs.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > What pain have you had with Dentrix? Did it drill a hole in the users
> > > heads? The interface looks rather nice and easy to use, also the third
> > > party software for the xray machine works wonders, which works very well
> > > with dentrix. The only part I dislike about dentrix is the restriction
> > > for ease of use is demolished if the patient information has not been
> > > entered by the receptionist. When there were dental assistants trying to
> > > chart someones mouth, they were freaking out when right click, chart
> > > didn't work. Tsume to the rescue, aka. Wonder Boy! :D
> >
> 
> Also, to keep this more on topic... (about GUIs) the appointment
> schedules are kind of awkward and just don't really fit our needs
> well.  It's easy enough to integrate with it (with some pain), so I
> suppose that's a good thing.
> 

Huh? Well Dentrix Appointment works better than Office Hours. They use
the overcomplicated rubbish downstairs. Office Hours is a good example
over what I was talking about. NDC uses native widgets, but just a
horrible overcomplicated design. People keep switching the views from
master to single rows, which is a completely pointless feature. I
haven't had any problems with dentrix appointment, because the interface
is simple. Its like comparing Windows to MacOSX/or GNOME. People really
need to use the KISS method.

Tsume