On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 18:23 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > This makes me wonder: is some of our work on usability > the wrong way round? We leave the developer with the > HIG and they do their best, and then we come along and > spot all the mistakes. > Programmers don't draw their own icons, they get an > artist to do it -- should we expect programmers to > design their own GUIs?
We should consider providing higher-level tools -- e.g. dialogue widgets with buttons already in place, although this particular example already exists -- and consider bribing the glade developers to make sure they are supported. Glade could also include pre-built application fragments as templates, which might help. This is similar to the question about "..." in menu entries -- if a menu directly brings up a dialogue, the toolkit could put the dots there. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
