Re: Uniformity?

[Nils Philippsen <nils rhlx01 rz fht-esslingen de>]

On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> >  Do you need a volunteer for this? Maybe I'd find the time, and dig up the
> >  various programs to see where the differences are. Has there been any
> >  discussion on topics with regard to guidelines (besides what's on
> >  www.gnome.org, of course)?
> 
> I would appreciate your help with the UI Guidelines document.

In order to be of help, I try to become acquainted with what has been done
by reading the gnome-gui-list archive (I hope to finish this quickly, someone
please mark personal rants in red :-) and just now I try to get the apple ui
guidelines in PDF (from a mirror, the main site is _very_ slow).

> 
> >  If this (UI-guidelines) could be considered as a vacant position
> >  and I hear no one opposing that I do this job, I'd gladly accept
> >  input of a) opinions on topics which haven't been decided finally
> >  and b) yet unwritten laws of which I might not be aware, then
> >  refine this stuff and maybe get something compact, excerpt-like out
> >  of it. Different opinions could be discussed and after the
> >  differences are worked out, the final document could be made.
> 
> Basically I want it to be similar in content to the Apple Human
> Interface Guidelines, with the addition of lots of programming
> examples that serve as a reference for programmers.

Has it been discussed if the examples should go into an Appendix or inline in
the document already?

> 
> Please take a look at whatever is on CVS now (under
> gnome-libs/devel-docs/ui-guide) -- it is very incomplete right now,
> and it could certainly use some work to bring it up to speed.

I took a look, and when I've got the Apple HIGuidelines and waded through the
gui-list-archive, I try to spit some useful stuff out.

Nils
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