On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Eben Eliason <eben.elia...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone - > > The Human Interface Guidelines [1] have been stagnant for some time, > and I'm starting an initiative to remedy the situation. This effort, > as I see it, has two components: 1) update the contents of the HIG and > 2) tease apart OLPC guidelines from Sugar guidelines, and adjust > hosting accordingly.
Thanks. I have just been in a discussion of Help facilities (Yay!), and of doubly-delayed popups (Boo!). The question is how to make as much as possible easily discoverable, and what to do about anything left over. Earth Treasury is getting a textbook rethinking, redesign, and implementation consortium together. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Creating_textbooks At some point we want to write a new XO+Sugar manual that encourages as much discovery as possible, but covers every known non-discoverable feature in some way. But we won't stop at features. We will move on to the non-discoverable parts of teaching discovery, collaboration, and other Really Big Ideas. > UPDATE: The content update is something I'll spearhead myself, as I > wrote most of the current guidelines. Assistance is certainly > welcome, however, /especially/ in amassing lists of holes that need to > be plugged; I'm sure there are countless implicit guidelines we all > follow that should really be laid down clearly and explicitly. > Ideally, we should be able to answer any noob question about visual or > interaction design by pointing to a sentence in the HIG. In that > regard, there is a component for the HIG in the OLPC trac system, so > tickets are welcome. As I mentioned, a small bit of the HIG (mostly > the "input methods" section, but perhaps others) are XO specific. > I'll attempt to tease this apart as well. I'll invite in some other people who know something about the matter. I assume that we need to comb through the Sugar framework and existing Activities to find any exceptions to documented practices, and discuss whether to document or change them. > Thanks for your assistance! > > [1] wiki.laptop.org/go/HIG -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar