HIG (Future of KDE Development)

[Christoph Cullmann]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 18:33, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> seeing as there were no objections to this (or interest? ;) i'm going to
> extend this concept a bit further:
>
> i'd really like to see that _any_ user-facing GUI that goes into the "KDE
> desktop" (konqueror, kicker, kdesktop, kwin, kcontrol; hrm.. what else?)
> get a UI review BEFORE being ok'd for inclusion in release. this would
> happen before, on or around the time of committing it. the review would
> include checking for HIG compliance and, time and resources permitting, a
> review by another KDE contributor for usability and accessibility concerns.
me second that ;) for example Kate has some HIG probs I guess, using kmdi, 
which is flawed atm in many ways (kate uses stripped down version without the 
mdi styles supporting "win-like" mdi or so, but still buggy)

don't know the new HIG, but it should cover the use of tabbing and the idea 
style mdi we use in kate, kdevelop, quanta (and even considering the sidebar 
of konqueror, in konqui, even while it doesn't use kmdi to implement it).

other question would be more a implementation detail, does we want a kmdi in 
kdelibs 4.x still supporting usability hell tabbed, toplevel and childwin mdi 
modes?

cu
Christoph

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Christoph Cullmann
KDE Developer, kde.org Maintainance Team
http://www.babylon2k.de, cullmann at kde.org
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