Hi Jorge, On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 02:37, Jorge O. Castro <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Luke started a thread a while ago.. he addressed the User Accounts dialog, but this is a beautiful solution that can also work for many other types of account setup wizards etc.. On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 16:10, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > the 'about me' and 'users and groups' will be replaced by User > > accounts > > diagloue in maverick. > > You mean the User Accounts dialog [1] that has been developed by Fedora? > > This is going to be part of GNOME 3.0 (I think). > > Allan > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UserAccountDialog i think this is the most reasonable thing to look at for now, if one is looking for a good design to model an accounts dialog after..
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