Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ freenet de>]

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 14:28 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote:

> How do you think can we do this? Also, who else (other than KDE
> usability) do we communicate with?

Sharing ressources and tackling the same problems only once are good
ideas. Though there will likely remain a few environmemnt-specific
patterns like the ordering of dialog buttons (I mean to recall that KDE
makes that configurable, but defaults to the "other" order).

It might help to have "neutral" hosting and naming for such a library.


I think the 2 most important projects outside of either GNOME or KDE are
Firefox and OpenOffice. 

The next 2 that come to my mind are Blender and Eclipse. Blender does
its own thing, but could be a source of inspiration for applications
that need a lot of controls.

Looking at webapps, I guess Gmail is number one.


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