On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:25:36PM -0700, Adam Elman wrote: > At 5:51 PM +0100 8/1/01, colin z robertson wrote: > >I'm wondering what sort of areas we're looking to cover in the GNOME > >2.0 Mini-Guidelines document. Here's a suggested list of things to > >include, all of it up for discussion. > > > >- Menus > > - Principles > > - Standard Menus > >- Dialogs > > - Principles > > - Standard Dialogs > >- Layout and Aesthetics > >- Terminology > >- Default Keybindings > > > >Is there anything else that needs to be included? Conversely, is there > >anything on this list that we should actually avoid for this document? > > I would add a general introductory note about why usability is a good > idea and covering some general principles. But then again, I'm > already working on such a note, so I'm slightly biased. :) Fine. > Glancing through a couple of the existing style guides... > > I think a brief discussion of "behavior" (mouse behavior, app > feedback, keyboard focus, and similar items) is important and should > be considered as well; I'm not sure how much is appropriate for the > mini-guidelines, but we should add it to the list. If we have time to fit it in then I wouldn't have any objections. It looks like it could easily get quite big though. Should we perhaps have a list of essential and optional topics for the mini-guidelines? > It would probably be a good idea to have at least a very brief note > on controls: when to use a radio button, when to use checkboxes, > pop-up menus, that sort of thing. Again, if we can fit it in, we should. > >Also we need to know what sort of timescale we're looking at. Does > >anyone have an up-to-date schedule for GNOME 2.0 development, and can > >anyone translate that into a deadline for our work? The only schedule > >that I know of is > >http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-2-0-list/2001-May/msg00019.html > > AFAIK from a couple of the hackers, release is still planned for late > this year/early next. I would think that it'd be very good for us to > have at least a draft for comment by mid-October (i.e. 10 weeks > away). Is that too fast? It sounds like a reasonable target to aim for. colin _____________________________ ____ rtnl http://rational.cjb.net c z robertson ndirect co uk icq 13294163
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