Re: Workrave anyone?
>>>>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:34:35 -0500, Sean Middleditch
>>>>> <elanthis@awesomeplay.com> was rumoured to have said:
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 16:20, Stelios Bounanos wrote:
>> > Ugh - if that Workrave screenshot is recent, someone should file a bug
>> > that they aren't HIG compliant in the least, either. I just tried, but
>> > I'm not going thru the effort of creating Yet Another Bugzilla Account
>> > for one little app I never use. ;-)
>>
>> Workrave is not part of GNOME2, so I don't see why non-compliance to
>> GNOME's HIG is a bug. Do you think authors of unrelated (but perhaps
>> GNOME-aware) software should be pressured into doing gnome-type UIs
>> Am I missing something here?
> Yes - creating non-HIG compliant GNOME-based applications is just
> silly. It's really no more difficult either way, and one way gives you
> a clean, consistant, easy to use UI, while the other gives you some
> hacked up only-understood-by-you mess. The HIG's purpose isn't to
> declare what the GNOME desktop should act like, it's purpose is to
> provide guidelines for applications authors to make good programs that
> don't have crap UIs. Personally, I'm sick of havin to spend inordinate
> amount of time guessing what authors intended with their UI. A solid
> set of standards help this; authors actually *using* them makes life
> nice.
> This is probably the worst part of the HIG - it's not clearly designated
> and evangelized to application authors until they try to get their app
> into GNOME core. I try to do my part by placing bugs on every app I see
> that fails to do so, and so far, the authors all are quite happy to make
> their app more user-friendly and sexy. ;-)
I see what you mean. I still have mixed feelings about GNOME's HIG,
and the UI changes in GNOME2 in particular, but the consistency is
definitely a good thing...
>>
>> >>
>> >> Ross
>> > --
>> > Sean Middleditch <elanthis@awesomeplay.com>
>>
Rgds,
/-sb.
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