Re: [HIG] Label alignment

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

oops, my reply was intended for hig, not usability too. Oh well, I guess
it worked out OK anyway ;-)

On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 04:20, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 05:48, Seth Nickell wrote:
> 
> > Probably not, other than what you or I provide. At this point the most
> > effective thing we can do with the HIG is not get it perfect, but get it
> > out. I'm looking at release in about 1-1.5 weeks now. We can release 1.2
> > in two months after we get a bunch of reviews and change some things.
> 
> Well, by "rigorous" I didn't necessarily mean "big", probably just you
> and me and (possibly) one other person if we can find somebody who's
> willing to spend a day or two on it.  At the very least we both need to
> read the whole lot through and make sure it all hangs together, because
> I know I've added stuff since the last review that probably contradicts
> things that somebody else has written elsewhere in the HIG, or that I've
> changed my mind about since :)
> 
> > I expect the HIG to work more like a "GNOME best usability practices"
> > document for the near future rather than a rigid formal
> > specification[1]. We will inevitably change items, and where we make
> > changes we can go through the desktop and file bugs where they need to
> > be filed, attach patches where the changes can be done in glade, and
> > suggest changes to maintainers where they are on IRC. In Free Software
> > the first few releases of something (even libraries) change quickly, and
> > morph until they solidify.
> 
> I agree with all of that, but I think we still need to make some sort of
> pre-release editorial effort in our 'major releases' at least... kind of
> like a ui-review, but for the HIG :)  Doesn't have to take more than a
> couple of days, we just need to sit down and make sure all the
> guidelines and terminology are consistent etc... I know you've been
> doing some over the past few days, I just need to start doing some of it
> as well...
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
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