>From a UI design point of view, yes, but UI design is only one piece. Often times you benefit from having a platform expert who understands the underlying technology.
-Ben On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:28 PM, PhistucK<[email protected]> wrote: > Since user interface changes (are supposed to) go by the user interface team > (some earlier thread required that), is it not part of their responsibility, > to answer cross platform questions such as this one? > ☆PhistucK > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:00, Ben Goodger (Google) <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> +1. It'd be good to involve experts from other platforms early in the >> process too even if the implementation is done later, so that the >> design considers local requirements. >> >> -Ben >> >> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Mohamed Mansour<[email protected]> wrote: >> > I believe we should not close the tracker associated to the CL if a UI >> > tweak >> > should be done in all platforms, and its up to the developer to know who >> > to >> > delegate that task to. We shouldn't force anyone to develop this, we >> > should >> > properly tag the issue tracker and add proper labels. As well, we should >> > properly cc people who are more active in that platform, so they will >> > know >> > what is missing. >> > I don't know what a good solution is to cross platform development, >> > unless >> > everyone should produce code in all three platforms whenever they work >> > on a >> > patch or feature. >> > - Mohamed Mansour >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Nico Weber <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I happened to look at a CL today that adds a "Really delete all >> >> passwords?" dialog on Windows ( http://codereview.chromium.org/155291 >> >> ). The patch was done by someone relatively new to the project (which >> >> is of course great). Sadly, neither the patch author nor one of the >> >> reviewers mentioned that this change might have to be done on the >> >> other platforms as well. As it happens, it's not necessary on OS X, >> >> but it might be required on Linux. >> >> >> >> What's out approach to make sure that such UI tweaks reach all >> >> platforms? Do we require that contributors who do a UI tweak implement >> >> it on all three platforms? Do we require that contributors who do such >> >> a change open bugs for the platforms they don't do the change on and >> >> hope someone else will do the change on the other platforms? Or do we >> >> simply not worry about this too much, as it doesn't happen that often >> >> anyway? >> >> >> >> Just curious. >> >> Nico >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > > >> > >> >> >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
