Re: [Usability] cross-desktop coordination?

[Jacob Beauregard <jake13jake comcast net>]

I'd be motivated enough to dedicate my winter and summer breaks to it. I 
think the first step would be a common HIG though.

Calum Benson wrote:
> On 19 Sep 2007, at 22:57, Jacob Beauregard wrote:
>
> > Why can't a Common HIG be created?
>
> In theory it could of course, and the KDE and GNOME projects have 
> talked about it before. At one point we even made a joint public 
> announcement, with an associated mailing list set up [1]. The mailing 
> list received about three emails and the project died as quickly as it 
> had started.
>
> Bottom line: nobody has ever been motivated enough to make it happen, 
> I guess.
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
> [1] http://dot.kde.org/1044312611/
>
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