Re: Nautilus Sidebar

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Ryan Paul wrote:
> Would making it a universal panel thing be an HIG
> violation? Having application functionality accessible somewhere other
> than the application window might be bad usability mojo.

The HIG authors would be the first to tell you to worry about good 
design first and HIG guidelines second. i.e. if you're solving a real 
user problem in a good way, and need to bend some HIG guidelines a 
little, no problem.

The HIG can't tell you what an app should _do_ or whether the 
app/feature should exist at all ... or in terms of the "7 design steps" 
the HIG kicks in around the "implementation" step and is not very 
important until then.

i.e. think first about "what does this enable people to do with the 
software?" and second "how easy will it be for them to do it?"

.02

Havoc