Re: [Usability] Re: Settings windows and dialogs

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:35:00PM -0600, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> 
> Unfreeze the API or do the work without a lib. Having a bad UI until 2004

> by duplicated programmer effort. The HIG can specify the appearance and
> behavior in whatever amount of detail is necessary and failure to comply
> should be regarded as a bug.

IMHO that is not feasible at this date.  If we want any hope of
releasing GNOME2 we need to draw a line in the sand and respect it.
It is painful to do it, but absolutely necessary.  There is no way
that there is time to work up and kick around a new api.  Propose an
api, and implement it in one of the development libs (eg gal) or in
a leaf project.  Developers can evaluate it during 2.1.

Applications do not get ported overnight, and they do not get ported
because we declare 'non-conformance to the HIG is a bug'.