[REMINDER] KDE 4.0 Milestones

[Allen Winter]

On Monday 07 May 2007 3:40:10 pm Ellen Reitmayr wrote:
> On Monday 07 May 2007, Allen Winter wrote:
> > Some friendly reminders...
> >
> > 8 May (Tomorrow!) is the "New Application Freeze" and the
> > start of the "Usability and Accessibility Review".
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Usability and Accessibility Review:
> >   I don't think we know what this means yet.  Does the HCI team have a
> > plan? 
> 
> We have a plan, and one of them is to include the community in "HIG-Hunting" 
> sessions. We will publish several checklists, e.g. about configuration 
> dialogs, toolbars, menus, context menus, color settings, keyboard access, 
> feedback dialogs etc. and ask the community to review KDE4 along those 
> checklists. Bugs should be reported in bugzilla and tagged "HIG" in the 
> title. On a wiki page, people should write down what applications have 
> already been reviewed.
> 
> At the same time, the usability and accessibility people will do further 
> reviews and post suggestions in core-devel or other developer mailing lists.
> 
> We are still preparing the first checklist and plan to announce it after new 
> application freeze (Wednesday), then more checklists every 2 or 3 days. If 
> you suggest another procedure, let us know.
> 
You guys are great.  Sounds like a fine plan to me.

The KMail review should be especially frightening.. :)

-Allen