On 22 Jul 2006, at 09:10, brian muhumuza wrote: > On 7/12/06, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12 Jul 2006, at 13:54, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > > These are things the HIG currently doesn't cover because they're > more > > than one control, but (with the exception of progress windows) less > > than an entire window. > > I've had definite plans to work on something like this for a while, > as part of (or supplemental to) a HIG revamp, and indeed I started > writing a mini-list of my own likely candidates here: > > http://live.gnome.org/HumanInterfaceGuidelines? > action=show&redirect=HIG > > i guess the best way to get this going is to work with GTK guys or > GNOME UI guys to create the widgets for programmers to use instead > of having to create them from scratch reading off a manual (HIG)
Possibly, but I'm not sure it's necessarily true for everything that might end up on such a list. Ultimately, it doesn't really matter how many fancy compound widgets you provide (and you can certainly provide too many-- not that I'm suggesting we currently do), there's always going to be a "next step up" in complexity where the developer will have to write something from scratch to assemble them into something useful, with guidance from some sort of HIG. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
