[Kde-games-devel] KDE HIG (was Re: KGameDifficulty)

[Mauricio Piacentini]

Continuing my previous message about KGameDifficulty and the roles of 
the toolbar and statusbar, I found the HIG docs at developer.kde.org. 
Maybe it is outdated, not sure. Start at

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/basics/

It has some definitions about common policies related to toolbar 
management and its relationship to items in the menubar. It also lists 
the typical usage of the statusBar to display state information about 
the document being worked on, and including somethings we do not do, 
such as using the first field at a fixed width, and letting the others 
spawn the reminder of the length. A good starting point, but I feel we 
should look for KDE4 specific guidance related to the human interface 
guidelines and how we are going to place our widgets.

We also will need to have a way to put this (and other) widgets on the 
game area in the future, I think. This is something the artist guys want 
to experiment with (no toolbars, no statusbar, in-game display of 
information.) If a theme wants to do this in the near future this should 
be possible, and in this case the automatic placing (in any location) 
should probably be optional anyway.

Should we post to kde-usability asking for help? There is also a 
kde-guidelines mailing list, but it seems to be dead (last message from 
November 2006.) Alternatively, a blog post could also attract attention, 
but might not bring the necessary focused review we need.

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini