Re: New GNOME Sample Application

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

I feel I should mention that HIG compliance does not necessary ensure
good usability, its just a very sane step towards such.

-Seth

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 09:54, Calum Benson wrote:
> 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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