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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: www/areas/usability/hig
From:       Aaron Seigo <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-08-19 1:50:12
Message-ID: 200408190350.12085.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Thursday 19 August 2004 03:15, Frans Englich wrote:
> Initial commit:  The revitalization of the KDE Human Interface Guidelines

please don't bother touching this document until at least after aKademy. i 
simply don't want your efforts to become wasted efforts due to acting 
independently and out of sync with the rest of the project.

i've tried to communicate this message on the kde-usability list politely and 
succinctly but i'll just say it bluntly at this point: any editting of this 
document right now without buy in from the developers or the usability people 
who are coming on board is a waste of time. this is not the sort of endeavour 
that one person can simply plow ahead and do; it requires coordination and 
team effort, which we simply do not have in place now but will by the end of 
the month. ok?

> What is the purpose of this?
>
> * Make it readable and attractive. 

honestly, the current layout of the UIG is not nearly what can be achieved or 
what we really need for our going-forward needs. it was a great early step 
and quite important to the development and consistency of KDE, but a much 
richer document is order at this point. prettying up what exists is not in 
order, quite frankly.

> The HIG will now have a proper layout 
> and be one click away, instead of being a little monster stuffed away
> behind a menu 4-6(?) hierarchy

and create a fork of it in our CVS. great. now which is the official version? 
i'm sure you'll say it's yours, but i don't know how many others will agree. 
the more they diverge, the worse this situation will become.

> Considering the HIG could use an efficient way for producing
> screenshots(especially since we have a habit of changing style every
> minor), and that the i18n people generates screenshots for each language,
> someone should write a cool in-house app..

Sven Leiber hacked up a small app that did this in about an hour. IIRC it was 
<100 LOC. it's really not that tricky. QWidgetFactory is the key =)

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo, currently in Heidelberg
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