It would be nice, if this consistency Rivendell is aiming for also included accented/foreign characters :-) In some modules they look right, in other modules they doesn't
2014/1/20 Fred Gleason <fr...@paravelsystems.com> > On Jan 20, 2014, at 00:08 17, Luigino Bracci <lbra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Another suggestion: check the Human Interface Guidelines from Gnome, KDE > or maybe other OS. > > > > Gnome > > https://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/stable/input-mouse.html (see > 10.1.3) > > > > KDE > > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG (but I can't find > anything about drang and drop) > > All other things being equal, an excellent idea. However, we already > break many of these (e.g. the use of color on buttons to indicate state). > Unfortunately, radio automation (and industrial process control in > general) is such an unusual beast that style books written for ‘office’ > tasks often have only limited relevance. > > My overall philosophy with regard to Rivendell’s UI has always been: > > 1) Aim for absolute UI consistency across all of Rivendell’s modules while > still providing an efficient and discoverable interface for getting the job > at hand done, while: > > 2) Maintaining as much consistency as possible to the larger ‘stylebook’ > standards of the underlying platform. > > We try to do both, but in the event of a conflict, 1) will always trump 2) > (especially given the diversity of Linux window managers out there). There > are certain advantages to being an Apple and hence able to enforce One > Right Way to do things. > > Cheers! > > > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | > | | Paravel Systems | > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | At the beginning of the week, we sealed ten BSD programmers into a | > | computer room with a single distribution of BSD Unix. Upon opening | > | the room after seven days, we found all ten programmers dead, | > | clutching each others' throats, and thirteen new flavors of BSD. | > | -- Anonymous | > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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