Re: [Usability] Standard GUI recipes

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 22 Jul 2006, at 09:10, brian muhumuza wrote:

> On 7/12/06, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2006, at 13:54, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>
> > 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=show&redirect=HIG
>
> 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)

Possibly, but I'm not sure it's necessarily true for everything that  
might end up on such a list.  Ultimately, it doesn't really matter  
how many fancy compound widgets you provide (and you can certainly  
provide too many-- not that I'm suggesting we currently do), there's  
always going to be a "next step up" in complexity where the developer  
will have to write something from scratch to assemble them into  
something useful, with guidance from some sort of HIG.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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