Re: [Usability]A Brief Comparrison of Gnome 2.2 & KDE 3.1

[Roberto Rosselli Del Turco <rosselli ling unipi it>]

MArk Finlay wrote:
> The other obvious consistency issue is the application of the HIG.
> There seem to be a few people working very well on this. Would
> it be useful to set up a HIGification project/list?

It would surely help reminding the developers about the issue.

> Another thing that would be useful would be to have glade create
> ui that conforms to the HIG by default. Or to have a HIG mode.

Heck, why not having a HIG mode *only* in glade? That way we'd be sure 
that every UI is HIGified (just kidding :)

> Another thing he mentions is not being able to find the control center.
> I couldn't agree with him more. We need to move Desktop Preferences,
> System Settings and Server Settings out of the Applicaions menu and into
> their own top level menu.

Unfortunately 2.2 menu doesn't seem to be a huge improvement on 2.0.

> Also a "Control Center" launcher linking to 'gnome-control-center
> --use-shell' would be useful for people who are used to kcontrol and
> windows control center. The menus are good for those of us who already
> know the control center, but for someone browsing for an option the
> shell is easier to use.

Good idea.

Ciao

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