On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:57:22AM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote: > > > I hate to say this, because it is not as open sourcy as I like to be, but > > > UI design takes years of experience to do properly. People with lots of > > > interest in UI design should definitely join the gnome-gui mailing list > > > and learn and discuss as much as they can, and I'm sure their > > > contributions will be valuable. But for creating a first draft of the UI > > > guidelines, I think we only want people with a pretty serious background > > > in UI design. (Well, we probably need to throw in somebody who is pretty > > > good at writing and DocBook/SGML.) > > > > I can see where you're coming from with this, but you do understand, > > don't you, that it rules out someone like me. > > I didn't realize that. > > I'm afraid it rules out most of us, including myself. I don't see this as > a bad thing though, since we can all voice our opinions both before the > work begins as well as during the review process when the team presents > various drafts for discussion and revision. I think you may be missing the point here slightly. I don't have any experience in guideline writing and I have no UI experience either, but I happen to be one of the people *actually doing something*. In my experience that's rather important. If I had thought that this should be done by someone competent to do it (like Arlo, for example), nothing would've got done. I don't really know what effect this has on your call for volunteers, but bear in mind that if you can't find the experts that you want, you still have to find _someone_, and experts with time on their hands are often in rather short supply. How many volunteers have we got so far anyway? How many do we need? colin _____________________________ ____ rtnl http://rational.cjb.net c z robertson ndirect co uk icq 13294163
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