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Heh, I searched synaptic and found an authoring system that was inspired by HyperCard. Which is what I used on the Mac years ago. It is called: "EToys"
So in a serious conversation I may be able to say: "Just install etoys to view the design doc." -
hitko31453yLinux has several GUI environments, here's a tutorial for Gnome: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/... Here's one for KDE: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visua...
Or alternatively you can just import SVG components into whatever design tool you like the most -
I found a couple of good candidates that can create functional mockups:
ForeUI and Balsamiq Wireframe
ForeUI produces PDFs, Images, and can simulate using HTML5. So you can test interactivity that way.
Still playing with both of these. -
KevenDev13yFigma is a great design tool. It's probably more geared towards web design, but I've used it for mobile and desktop design as well.
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Is there a mockup/authoring system for linux that I can use to mockup gui interfaces? I want to be able to create pages of screens with button that link to other pages. I first want to use this to document out current app. Then I want to use it to create a new version so that others can review the approach I want to take.
I am first looking at libreoffice because you can draw primitives very easy. It has a scripting backend as well. I had used authoring systems years ago (20 years) on old black and white macs. I have not seen systems like that in a while. Searching for authoring systems for linux brings up a lot of web based ones. I don't want to mock it up on web if I can help it, but it could work if it did relative links to html files in the same directory. That way any browser would work.
I really just don't know what the state of the art tools used for this. Probably using terms I don't recognize.
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