Re: [Usability] cross-desktop coordination?

[Jacob Beauregard <jake13jake comcast net>]

Oh nice, I ran into a specific example of how cross-desktop coordination 
would be useful:

I was using gedit to write some lisp code. However, it doesn't have lisp 
highlighting (though somehow it managed to have scheme and ocaml). KDE's 
text editor does.

http://kate-editor.org/article/writing_a_kate_highlighting_xml_file
http://live.gnome.org/GtkSourceView/NewLangFormat

Essentially, the highlighting definitions are incompatible redundancies, 
and if not for this, I would have a choice of picking the program thats 
interface is better suited for me, as opposed to choosing simply because 
of limited functionality.

Anyone know anybody who works on either of these projects?

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> On Sep 22, 2007, at 1:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>   
> > Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> >     
> > > Maybe someone who's interested in this should start by doing the leg
> > > work and seeing where the differences are. Before anyone agrees to
> > > work towards compatibility, they're going to want to know what needs
> > > done.
> > >       
> > That's an excellent first step.  I like it because it's useful no 
> > matter what happens:  if it leads to a universal HIG that would be 
> > ideal, but at a minimum it would provide a list of "gotchas" for UI 
> > designers to consider.
> > ...
> >     
>
> For helping interface designers, I think it would be appropriate to 
> include such differences in the relevant section of the HIG itself. Not 
> just differences from KDE, but also differences from Windows and from 
> Mac OS X.
>
> Cheers
>