Talks
Lovely gray buttons: the vivid history of widgets evolution with snippets of code
The talk covers a 30-years evolution of widget toolkits, which took place along with the historical changes in a desktop GUI. Architecture specifics, API, visual styles and user experience are compared. Alongside the source code fragments, live demo of the appropriate GUI is shown with use of virtual machines, embedded into the presentation slides instead of screenshots.
Dmitry Kostiuk
Assoc. professor, Brest State Technical University
Associated professor in Brest State Technical University in the area of computer science and human-computer interaction. Active participant of Belarusian open source community, a FLOSS headliner and one of the main organizers of the Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe international conference (a general topic free/libre software conference held in Belarus starting from 2005), and co-organizer of several other FLOSS conferences in Russia and Ukraine (FOSS Lviv, Ukrainian OSDN, Linux Piter, etc.).
