Re: Proposal: Workrave

[Raymond Penners <raymond dotsphinx com>]

Andrew Sobala wrote:
> It does involve some commitments. These are things like paying attention
> to the usability and accessibility teams, and sticking to the freeze
> policies when coming up to a release (at least on a branch if not on
> head). If you want to propose Workrave, you would have to stick to
> these.

Ofcourse, but that would not really scare us. For now, I think it is not 
really feasible as Workrave is written in C++ and is gtkmm based. From 
what I understand, gtkmm is not part of the main GNOME distribution, yet?

> > We would like to migrate if:
> [...]
> This can be done; if you decide to migrate, talk it over with
> bugmaster gnome org (this is a list with the bugzilla techs on it).

That sounds promising, thanks for the tip.

> Do you agree with the following documents?
>
> http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.html
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/

Fully. Although Workrave has had its HIG problems in the past, most of 
these have been resolved nowadays. We still appreciate any feedback in 
this area...

> If the usability team suggested ways of keeping the functionality of
> workrave usable while removing preferences for it, what would your
> reaction be?

I would be in favor of dropping preferences whenever possible. In fact, 
I would love to get some usability feedback on Workrave.

> Hmmm. If you like a thousand options, GNOME 2 is not for you ;-)

Workrave is not about thousands of options. Workrave is about covering 
functionality that aids in RSI prevention and recovery, and everything 
related to that. When comparing to DrWright, Workrave offers additional 
functionality, like network distribution, statistics, and soon 
exercises. Unfortunately, more functionality usually means that there is 
more to configure. One could argue that the statistics feature of 
Workrave only adds extra bloat. But, as a matter of fact, the statistics 
allow you to study your current work behaviour, learn from your 
mistakes, and improve your way of working.

Regards,
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