From kde-usability Sat Feb 01 02:31:12 2003 From: "Aaron J. Seigo" Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 02:31:12 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: [ANNOUNCE] open-hci@freedesktop.org X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=104406681532701 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, Seth Nickell (GNOME Usability Project), Havoc Pennington (Free Desktop, GNOME), and JP Schnapper-Casteras (Free Desktop Accessibility Working Group) and myself have been discussing the possibility of co-locating the KDE and GNOME Human Interface Guides (HIGs). The plan as discussed thus far is to have the two documents co-inhabit one XML document. Within this document, each HIG will have its own sections as appropriate and will remain available for separate viewing. The goal is to have one URL (on www.FreeDesktop.org) and one document for developers to go to for KDE and GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. We hope this site can eventually house guidelines for multiple desktops and graphical toolkits. The easier we can make it for developers to discover and follow such guidelines the better it will be for Open Source desktops in general. Since KDE apps are often run on GNOME and vice versa, developers should be able to easily reference the guidelines for all the desktops they expect their app to be run on. Having a shared document will also allow us to start looking at commonalities between the documents and perhaps create common chapters or sections on basic guidelines and lessons that are desktop and toolkit-independent (e.g., accessibility and internationalization tips, general usability principles). It will take some work to merge the documents, create a web site, and raise awareness about the site for developers and people working on other non-KDE non-GNOME HIGs. If you wish to join us in these efforts, please subscribe to the open-hci@freedesktop.org email list via the web interface at: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hci/ Best wishes to everyone! - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" - Albert Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+OzFw1rcusafx20MRAr9BAKCxGurGUAoiHWbIFzgvTSoVg/o+vgCgkh2f QNfP81Z0wdvVfTTv2BnGJQY= =81Za -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability