Re: [Usability]widget style vs window decoration, (was "cheat to window-manager integration")

[snickell stanford edu]

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/application-world-match.html

(basically saying what Christian said below)

-Seth

Quoting Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>:

> tor 2002-07-25 klockan 04.36 skrev Sunnanvind Fenderson:
> > I like the word "widget", and it's not particularly harmful for it
> to
> > be present.
> > 
> > Before I knew what the name for widgets were, i.e. before I'd
> heard
> > the word widget, they were really hard to talk about, and even as
> a
> > non-programming user many people would like to do that.
> > 
> > (With "application theme" I'm reading "application specific
> themes"
> > which would be very wrong.)
> > 
> > Calling the widget style settings "widget style" is a gentle way
> for
> > people to find out that the common name for those clickable
> > thingamajigs are "widgets".
> 
> We are not here to educate people, we are here to present people with
> a
> usable desktop, and preferrably regardless of their previous
> familiarity
> with certain design terminology.
> 
> Not all people are of the kind "oh here is something that I'm not
> familiar with, let's see what it does" but rather "oh here is
> something
> that I'm not familiar with, better not touch that". In that respect,
> presenting the user with strange terminology is something that should
> be
> *avoided* rather than enouraged.
> 
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
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