[kde-community] HIG compliance testing via Google Code-in

[Jeremy Whiting]

I wouldn't mind getting usability information about knewstuff (used in
many applications), kanagram, and/or Jovie.

thanks,
Jeremy

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> as you know from Lydia's recent mail on this list, we need some more Google
> Code-in tasks.
> So far we had two tasks for testing KDE applications for compliance with the
> KDE Human Interface Guidelines
> (http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG). Both tasks have been
> completed very successfully, yielding a detailed spreadsheet of violations for
> each HIG area with basically zero effort from our side. Therefore I'd like to
> post and mentor more of these tasks. However I don't want students to create
> lists of problems with no chance of them ever being fixed, so I won't post any
> compliance test tasks without buy-in from the respective application's
> developers.
> So, who would like to have their application HIG-compliance-tested? Just reply
> here and I'll set a task up. It will help you identify potential usability
> problems in your applications without any effort from your side except for the
> commitment to look at the lists and see if you can fix the issues there after
> task completion.
> Cheers,
> Thomas
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