On 30 Oct 2008, at 14:10, Kirk Bridger wrote:
Glade could probably have been rather more helpful in the meantime,
too, by shielding designers from any non-optimal gtk+ defaults. I
don't know how much time I've wasted over the years left- or right-
aligning text labels that always default to centre alignment, or
adding the same HIG-compliant row and column spacing to tables and
boxes that Glade always adds to my dialogs with a spacing of zero.
Perhaps we should step back and ask if that level of fidelity is
always needed for usability feedback. If we wanted to paint a
picture then pen and paper are all we need (and a scanner). Do the
developers actually value us using glade for interface designs?
That's a sincere question.
In this case, I was really talking about using Glade in the context of
implementing the final product. Delivering glade files to developers
is something I (quite reasonably) end up doing on many of the projects
I work on, and sometimes it's more of a chore than it ought to be just
to make a HIG-compliant dialog. (Text label alignment being one of
the most annoying.)
As an aside, have we thought about putting together a GNOME list of
usability heuristics we use in our reviews by default, perhaps in
the HIG?
Not properly. The HIG has a not-really-very-useful sort of list at
the end:
<http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/checks-yourself.html.en>
and when we were doing UI reviews, we had as short list of things to
look out for at those, too:
<http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Archives?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=checklist.html
>
Usability studies. Having some sponsored would help. Dave
Richards had
feedback from users on what's wrong and what works.
Sorry, I didn't see this feedback - is there a link or can it be
provided?
<http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest/CityOfLargoPresentation>
<http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest/IdeaDump/LargoPresentationFeedback
>
Cheeri,
Calum.
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