Re: [Usability]GNOME 2 HIG review

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 02:16, Seth Nickell wrote:

> > * Figure 6.4 depicts a toolbar with a close button. According to conversations on the usability mailing list ("GNOME-SEARCH-TOOL" thread, August 2002) that example image must be changed.
> 
> Yes... Our existing screenshots are mostly from GNOME applications. The
> advantage is it spared us having to create a bunch of mockups (saving
> time). The downside is that practically every thing we draw a sample
> shot from has *some* HIG/usability error in the shot
> (which is embarrasing :-) 

I spent some time over the past few days trying to make sure all our
screenshots do now follow the HIG, though (including removing one
instance of this particular toolbar screenshot, but I missed the other
one), so if you spot any more we've missed do let us know :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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