Hi everyone, I have an upstream working on an application, he wants to add an account dialog to his application, this is what he came up with: http://i.imgur.com/9vFZF.png
So at first glance I thought "That doesn't look right". Here's gwibber's account dialog: http://i.imgur.com/e504n.png Gwibber's is based on Empathy. Ken decided that it was important for the Gwibber account manager to operate as a separate application outside of Gwibber itself. While he was reimplementing it, he took the opportunity to streamline it and change the design to make it more consistent with the account dialog that Empathy had at the time. (Because hey, why not, make them behave the same!) Here's a separate design that Ryan had come up with (just to put it out here): http://s3.amazonaws.com/scrnshots.com/screenshots/191324/gwibber-home-screenpng >From playing with both the empathy and gwibber dialogs they seem similar enough for most people to not care -- though there are some small inconsistencies that should be fixed. Evolution is different, as well as other apps. Searching through the GNOME wiki and HIG doesn't seem to give me any answers. Has anyone out there done research into this topic? Is there supposed to be an example application where can I point upstream application authors to emulate when it comes to adding account information? Is anyone aware of GNOME handling what app authors should do? I'd be more than happy to take the conversation upstream if that's where it should be. -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://twitter.com/castrojo Need help with Ubuntu? Ask the experts at http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
