Settings Human Interface Guidelines first draft online

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 31 December 2011, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi all,
> as promised I have put the first draft of the HIG for Settings dialogs in
> the wiki at
> http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Development/ActiveHIG/Settings This
> is clearly RFC. Please comment away, especially regarding
> - Things that you think could cause usability problems
> - Things that are not technically feasible
> - Things that might cause other problems in the long run
> - Questions still left unanswered by these guidelines
> - Things that are difficult to understand and/or ambiguous

good job :)

from a quick read seems so far so good, just a couple of things that quickly 
come to my mind:

"Restart [Application name] for the changes to take effect"
this should be possible to avoid almost always since applications should be 
able to notice, dunno if we can try to forbid it at first and see if there 
really will be something that can't live without ;)

To select one of many options, use a [selection widget]
in the standard components there is a "SelectionDialog" pretty pedestrian and 
does what it says, so that one should be adviced when options are too many for 
radio buttons

"number wheel"
that will have to be well defined and possibly a standard component be made 
for ite (maybe derived from the time and date thing)

-- 
Marco Martin