Re: [Usability] Standard GUI recipes

["brian muhumuza" <brian muhumuza gmail com>]

On 7/12/06, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:

On 12 Jul 2006, at 13:54, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

>
> Here's a few examples of things that would benefit from consistent
> design:
> *   library with folders, smart folders, and/or tags
> *   simple boolean filter, as in this case ("all of the following"/
>      "any of the following")
> *   nested boolean filter (and here's one I prepared (much) earlier:
>
> < http://groups.google.com/group/netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news/
> browse_thread/thread/634552115f0a8906/
> 3720f15f2d8d80a1#3720f15f2d8d80a1>)
> *   progress windows (currently a mess in Gnome)
> *   panel applets (is it a button, a menu, or two menus? surprise me!)
> *   In-window text entry errors ("You must enter your name") and
>      warnings ("Choose a longer passphrase for better security")
> *   zoom controls (slider or buttons or menu?)
>
> 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=""

Feel free to add your own :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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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)