Re: UI Guidelines -- What I'm doing

[Joakim Ziegler <joakim ximian com>]

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:19:14AM +0100, colin z robertson wrote:
> For the last two months or so I have been trying to resurrect the UI
> Guidelines document in Gnome CVS at /gnome-libs/devel-docs/ui-guide.
> So far I have written a section on dialogs and I'm working on a
> section on menus. I have some fairly basic mechanisms for handling
> i18n in the document.

> My work so far is available at
> http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~s.robertson/software/ui-guide

The chapters you've written look good. I'm wondering if the structure of the
document (as outlined by the table of contents) is ideal, though, but that
should be a topic for discussion once we get the writers' group together.

Speaking of which, this is what I'm thinking about sending out to the
various relevant groups today (or tomorrow if there are largish concerns
that need to be addressed):

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Call For Writers

The GNOME Usability Project is attempting to organize the work on the GNOME
User Interface Guidelines. To increase the signal to noise ratio andimprove
efficiency, we are attempting to gather a small number (5-10) of dedicated
writers who are able to dedicate considerable amounts of time to writing the
guidelines. The idea is that these people form the initial authoring group,
coordinating on a dedicated mailing list, and producing and presenting
drafts of the finished document for review by the GNOME community frequently
(once every couple of weeks or so).

This work will build on Colin Z Robertson's efforts to resurrect the GNOME
UI Guidelines, and people who have already agreed to take part in the group
of writers includes Colin, Anna Dirks from Ximian, Calum Benson from Sun,
and myself.

If you have a keen interest in/experience with UI and GNOME, and are able to
dedicate time to writing substantial parts of the UI Guidelines, you should
probably sign up for the writers' group. However, the intention of the core
group is to produce the document quickly, so if you're unable to dedicate
the time to being a member of the core group, you will probably be better
off providing feedback/patches on the biweekly drafts, which will be
published to the usability gnome org list (and other places, as relevant).

The mailing list for the writers is not set up yet. Please respond to this
mail if you're interested in participating. Introducing yourself when doing
so is probably a good idea, too.

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I might polish this a little bit, it's kind of a rough draft, but I'd
welcome feedback before I send it out.


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