Re: New GNOME Sample Application

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> With only a small amount of work, gedit will be an excellent candidate.
> There are a few things that need cleaning up from a HIG perspective

It's certainly about the closest we have to a decent-sized HIG-compliant
application at the moment, although there's at least one fairly major UI
thing that is (arguably) appropriate for gedit to do that breaks current
HIG guidelines: the use of a separate Search menu.  That's not really
something we'd want to encourage in most applications.

The only solution I can think of is to change the guidelines to reflect
the fact that it's sometimes appropriate to do this, but I dunno if
that's necessarily a great idea... anyone have any other suggestions?

Cheeri,
Calum.

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