Re: Uniformity?

[John R Sheets <dusk smsi-roman com>]

Nils Philippsen wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
>
> > They should be in the as-yet-unwritten User Interface Guidelines
> > document.  I really haven't had time to work on it.
> >
>
> Has there been any
> discussion on topics with regard to guidelines (besides what's on
> www.gnome.org, of course)?

There was a fiery discussion on gnome-gui-list a few months ago, but it sort of
turned into a flame war, divided into opposing camps, and I think everyone burnt
out on the idea.  Too much water under the bridge.  That list has been quiet as a
graveyard ever since.  Kind of embarassing, really.

The unfortunate side effect is that no work is being done on it.  I think it would
be great if you started working on it.  The gui-list is archived, so if you don't
mind weeding through the 100+ messages per day that the list peaked at (only
toward the end), you'll find a lot of very good ideas.  Hint: look for the shorter
threads with meaningful titles.  (c;

Have you looked over Federico's UI Guidelines template in
/gnome-libs/devel-docs/ui-guide yet?

If you need a little help deciphering some of the ideas that passed through there,
or finding a good place to start, let me know.

John