On Jan 20, 2014, at 00:08 17, Luigino Bracci <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another suggestion: check the Human Interface Guidelines from Gnome, KDE or > maybe other OS. > > Gnome > https://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/stable/input-mouse.html (see 10.1.3) > > KDE > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG (but I can't find anything > about drang and drop) All other things being equal, an excellent idea. However, we already break many of these (e.g. the use of color on buttons to indicate state). Unfortunately, radio automation (and industrial process control in general) is such an unusual beast that style books written for ‘office’ tasks often have only limited relevance. My overall philosophy with regard to Rivendell’s UI has always been: 1) Aim for absolute UI consistency across all of Rivendell’s modules while still providing an efficient and discoverable interface for getting the job at hand done, while: 2) Maintaining as much consistency as possible to the larger ‘stylebook’ standards of the underlying platform. We try to do both, but in the event of a conflict, 1) will always trump 2) (especially given the diversity of Linux window managers out there). There are certain advantages to being an Apple and hence able to enforce One Right Way to do things. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | At the beginning of the week, we sealed ten BSD programmers into a | | computer room with a single distribution of BSD Unix. Upon opening | | the room after seven days, we found all ten programmers dead, | | clutching each others' throats, and thirteen new flavors of BSD. | | -- Anonymous | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
