On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Maciej Piechotka <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 08:47 +0100, Allan Day wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> A new version of the HIG is in the works, to be released along with >> GNOME 3.14 [1]. I'm currently looking for feedback. >> >> I'm particularly interested to know if anything is missing, confusing, >> or incorrect from a technical point of view (like if any of the >> recommendations are impossible or very difficult to do with current >> GTK+). >> >> To read the latest version, just clone gnome-devel-docs and open >> hig3/C/index.page with Yelp. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Allan >> >> [1] >> https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2014/08/21/new-human-interface-guidelines-for-gnome-and-gtk/ > > Please note that while I plan to write a small app in near future I have > 0 experience with GTK+ and even less with the design so I might simply > misunderstood something: > > - Code samples or links to the GTK+ documentation would be nice as I > imagine some UI elements are named for their role rather then the GTK+ > widget. Probably the samples are too much work in 3.14 timeframe but > links to documentation would be nice (for example should sidebar be > implemented by GtkPlacesSidebar?)
That's something I was wondering about too. I'm not sure which approach would be best though - would it be better to list the GTK+ widgets required, point to examples, link to API docs, or something else? I'm conscious that, in many examples, the patterns are composites of different widgets. > - Sidebar lists image shows primary windows and application menu - I > guess different image was intended. Yep, thanks! Fixed. > - Possibly middle mouse button should be discouraged as well due to > confusion with scroll events some mouses have. I had 'fun' using one > application (not in Gnome) where some basic operation was only > accessible through this method. I'm not sure about that particular issue, but I'll certainly take another look at that section. > - Some sections seems to be meant to be 'obligatory' for beginners > (Essentials or Getting Started) - it would be nice to have next/prev > link instead of relaying on back/next button in yelp I could certainly do that for the essentials pages. Thanks again! Allan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
