RE: Awesome new Mozilla roadmap!

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 18:00, Julien Olivier wrote:

> As for the HIG compliance, why not trying to make Phoenix HIG-compliant
> ? Why would'nt Phoenix developers want their app to be HIG-ified ?

This is the wonderful part of cross-platform GUI's.  Every platform has
a different HIG.  Mac OS X, KDE, GNOME, WinXP, others - they all have
different styles, etc.

You cannot write a GUI that properly fits into all of these.  Phoenix is
an attempt to make a GUI that is consistant across all of these
environments, and thus has to work the way most of its users' would
expect (which generally means Windows' attempt at usability), and not
the way a GNOME user would expect.

Things like the icons used (icon styles vary across platforms), spacing
of elements, dialog style (everything from what text goes in the window
title to the style of text in the body to the button ordering), option
grouping, location/naming of menu items, keyboard shortcuts, etc. are
different on these platforms.

Epiphany/Galeon is a great idea becuase it presents an interface that
follows the HIG for a specific desktop interface (GNOME).  Konquerer or
KMozilla or whatever is great for KDE users, Camino for OS X users,
stock Phoenix for Windows users, Eiphany/Galeon for GNOME users, etc.

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