On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:26:38 +0200 > From: Philip Van Hoof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Usability] Openusability and GNOME usability > > > Hi there, > > As a GNOME developer who is obsessed with the idea of "some day" having > a platform where it, for a user, no longer matters whether a desktop app > was developed using libraries typical for desktop platform a or using > libraries typical for desktop platform b (xfce, maemo, gnome, kde, wm, > whatever and whichever) . . .
me too I was just pondering how xfce, maeomo/gpe, and gnome might better be able to converge by using standard API for various things like for example the file chooser the about dialogs and other things. Then depending on how you compile your app you would get things setup to more closely match your preferred enviroment (to a large extent this is what is supposed to be happenning already with maemo/GPE). I guess it highlights how difficult a task the GTK developers have when it comes to developing the toolkit and trying to meet all these different needs. > . . I wonder . . > > > What is the status of cooperation between you guys and the guys at > openusability.org? > > Have you guys spoken with each other? Sort of ... not really > Have you guys contacted them and/or have you guys been contacted by > them? The latter. A nice German(?) woman Ellen (?) encouraged us to get involved as I recall. I didn't sign up at the time but I have been sort of meaing to get around to it eventually especially since I'm now occasionally poking and prodding some KDE projects about usability. > Are you guys planning to do > this in a (near) future? Me personally, yes probably if only to see what they are up to. They seem to be helping the KDE developers quite a bit and presenting their work in a way developers are more receptive to which is something I think I may have been failing to do recently (or it could just be Gnome developers dont like my suggestions). Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
