Re: Does the HIG address the default UX of GNOME itself?

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Hi,

thanks for your message! :) You may want to discuss that on
https://discourse.gnome.org/ as this mailing list is for specific
feedback on specific documentation pages.

Thanks,
andre

On Sun, 2022-05-08 at 09:56 -0400, bjt rabidquill com wrote:
> I am very thankful for GNOME and its related projects, and I'd like
> to
> contribute to the GNOME UX in some way. I don't want to step on toes
> or
> start by proposing things that are counter to the existing vision so
> I've looked around for documentation to help me catch up before
> participating.
>
> I haven't found what I'd consider a documented vision for the default
> desktop UX in the HIG. Correct me if I'm wrong please, but the HIG
> appears to be about GNOME application development and not GNOME
> itself.
> Is the desktop environment's UX plan written out anywhere?
>
> Primarily I'm interested in the GNOME team's ideas about the
> discoverability of things on the system. Devices, running
> applications,
> active/available services, and so on. The HIG remarks that
> unnecessary
> steps should be removed if at all possible, and less frequent, less
> relevant tasks should be farther away than the more salient ones.
> This
> sounds like a reasonable approach to the DE too, but there are some
> things that feel completely inaccessible in the default experience.
>
> As a long time Linux power user I am not inconvenienced by much. I
> can
> always search, read man pages and resort to the terminal.
>
> But suppose I do not already have these habits, and I want to learn
> about the devices my system currently recognizes, or understand what
> all is running in my user space currently, or what types of
> applications I have available. Is there a specific vision at GNOME as
> to how this experience should go? Is it out of scope?
>
> I am sure there are answers to these questions but I must need some
> help digging them up in the documents. Can someone help this
> ignoramus
> out?
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