As we are already there, one of you Davids might also review https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/README section overview,
and probably files in https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/tree/maint/doc https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-docs/blob/maint/gnucash-docs.spec.in ... which borrow the intro There have been "shiny new features" of 1.x which no one any longer would mention for the 3.x series. Frank Am 15.09.18 um 00:42 schrieb John Ralls: > We're probably pretty compliant with the Gnome 2.0 HIG, but the Gnome HIG has > changed over the years and GnuCash's UI hasn't. Just switching to Gtk3 > probably got us some updates just because Gtk is what implements the HIG, but > that would have been largely inadvertent. > > For the purposes of the documentation I don't think we should be making any > claims like that. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On Sep 14, 2018, at 11:57 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel >> <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> In the course of another arduous and lengthy thread, the question of the >> Gnome HIG came up. I attach the text in question below. >> >> My question is whether the Guide needs changing at 1.2.1, where it says: >> Easy to Use Menus: GnuCash menus conform to the GNOME Human Interface >> Guidelines. This means that they are simple and similar in appearance to >> many other GNOME applications. >> >> Is this statement inaccurate? Should it be removed? >> >> David >> >> ———— >> Previous discussion: >> >> I don't know about allowing room for it, but it's pretty far in the future >> because we still have too many Gnome dependencies in the core and too many >> MVC violations to be able to implement a different toolkit. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> >>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 10:23 AM, Adrien Monteleone >>> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net <mailto:adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net>> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Then I misunderstood some earlier discussions about the UI, at least with >>> respect to Linux. What toolkit is envisioned to be used? What layout >>> principles? Or are those questions so far in the future as to not be worth >>> spending time allowing room for? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Adrien >>> >>>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 12:18 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us >>>> <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 10:09 AM, Adrien Monteleone >>>>> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net <mailto:adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 8:13 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel >>>>>> <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> In other words, unless there is a change in function, there is no need >>>>>> to change the functional description. It seems to me that putting text >>>>>> that doesn’t change into code is essentially a one-time process. Not >>>>>> necessarily easy, but once completed, not particularly obtrusive. >>>>>> Putting the functional description into code has the added benefit, >>>>>> perhaps, of alerting developers to the fact that if they change a >>>>>> feature, the description (right there in the code) needs an update as >>>>>> well. >>>>> >>>>> While the principles might not change, or even the name/label of certain >>>>> buttons, the UI layout (where those buttons are, the fact that they are >>>>> buttons instead of menu entries, etc.) will very likely change as the >>>>> Gnome HIG is more faithfully implemented. But those code changes >>>>> shouldn’t affect anything generally in the Guide, and should auto update >>>>> the context help if it is drawn from the code itself. If not, then >>>>> consider that attempts to corral GnuCash within the confines of the Gnome >>>>> HIG, will produce such changes you’re thinking won’t happen. >>>> >>>> Why do you think we're going to "more faithfully implement" the Gnome HIG? >>>> One of our long-term goals is to remove our Gnome dependencies. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> John Ralls >>> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
