Software that 'just works'

Havoc's comment about autogenerating UI's seems to be misunderstood by a few people. He just meant that people seem to try to generate UI's from a set of options rather than either using glade or coding the UI by hand. To really do a non-trivial interface requires an attention to detail that most of these attempts don't have.

As an example, the UI of the original gmc property dialog was autogenerated from a struct containing all the gmc options. The struct was made more detailed in an attempt to make the dialog look better. We ended up with a very mediocre dialog and a system that was not as simple as we'd hoped. It was eventually replaced with a custom dialog that gave us the flexibility to do a good job in laying out the system.