On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 17:39, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: > Le lun 23/06/2003 � 19:03, Adam Williamson a �crit : > > See topic. A speculative suggestion, what if the drak* tools were > > overhauled to meet some recognised usability standard, like HIG or > > whatever KDE's equivalent is? I understand there may be objections or > > there may be an internal Mandrake standard, it's really just a > > suggestion intended to provoke some discussion, I wanted to know what > > others think on this topic...but it would be a nice step towards having > > a desktop that's completely working to one usability standard... > > Mdk Tools are Gtk base so it may seems sensible to HIGify them ... but > mdktools are not gnome apps, just gtk apps.
Sure, but the HIG isn't somehow just good for GNOME apps - it's the result of a significant amount of investigation into what makes a good interface. But the point wasn't the HIG in particular, there's other guidelines out there; it was more intended to ask whether there's a consistent standard for usability among drak tools, and whether it's being applied... > I'm must say however that if mdktools could follow some HIG specs and > provide image button for validation/cancel/apply it should add visual > points to the GUI. > But before thinking abiout that they should correct some of the bugs > that u can see when using theses tools and provide more consistency > within their tools, so they should edict a Mdk Interface Guideline ( > M.I.G ) -- adamw
