On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Calum Benson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 10 Mar 2010, at 10:32, Valent Turkovic wrote: > > > Do you have some examples and guidelines how to customize GNOME for > Netbooks? > > If you want some ideas for how to customize GNOME to work on a netbook, > it's probably easiest just to try some of the netbook-oriented distros out > there, like the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, to see what they do. > > We also need to encourage developers to write applications that will adapt > better to running on netbooks and other non-desktop devices. This will > certainly be one of the themes of the new GNOME Human Interface Guidelines, > on which we're just getting started. > > Yes, and mobile devices (smartphones etc) too. I've noticed the user interface of applications designed for these devices are highly usable and well thought out. I think the physical constraints of these devices forces developers to come up with creative user interfaces. Anyway, I think it'll be great if some of the great ideas of developing user interfaces on mobile devices finds its way into the GNOME HIG.
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