Re: New GNOME User Interface Guidelines document and maintainer

["Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@nuclecu.unam.mx>
To: effugas@best.com <effugas@best.com>
Cc: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Friday, August 07, 1998 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: New GNOME User Interface Guidelines document and maintainer


>>  I'm not the code master--I just make really good mockups.  Someone
shouldn't
>>  have to code to make a suggestion--that's the point of gnome-gui.  The
>>  images aren't getting through?  Very strange.  Can I please please
please
>>  have space for my gnome proposal web site on www.gnome.org?
>
>Suggestions about novel UI ideas are of course very welcome.
>Unfortunately, and please don't get me wrong, they are not very useful
>unless people can actually test them in the form of a running program :-)
>
>There are quite a few people writing applets for the GNOME Panel, so
>you may want to talk to someone on gnome-list to see if he has the
>time/inclination to write a proof of concept of your Minbar idea.  We
>are very interested in having a very functional Panel.  As far as I
>can tell, your proposal also has some relationship with what a window
>manager does for its iconified windows and such, so you may want to
>talk to some WM wizards as well.


I have fixed the graphics up.  I'm gonna try to get *all* the entries on the
web page(newly fixed!) written up, so a full fledged "Go get em" can be sent
to gnome-dev.

>(People write the craziest applets, so chances are good that you'll
>find someone who will try to implement your ideas) :-)


Hope so.

>>  Could everybody please email me(not to the list) if they can access the
>>  pictures?
>
>I just went through the directories under ~effugas/Constructs, and
>cannot find any images there, just html files.


Bug in Netobjects Fusion.  Now if there was ever an app that needed to be
ported to Linux...fixed now, anyway.

>  Federico
>