[kde-guidelines] Conventions in the HIG

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Monday 10 June 2013 17:17:17 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:

> I have been thinking about this a bit more. Applications based on kdelibs
> 4.x and early kde frameworks 5.x, will be mostly widget based, but in the
> long term we probably want to migrate applications to QML. Since we don't
> want the HIG to become obsolete too fast :) I suggest picking "Control",
> which sounds more generic to me. Opinions?

+1 for future-proof HIGs

> > > +1. A consistent look helps a lot here.
> > > Another reason for storing the ui files used for the screenshots in a
> > > central repository: If the default style used by KDE changes in the
> > > future, we can simply make the screenshots again with the new one to
> > > keep up to date. That would still be quite some work, but it should be
> > > doable
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I am happy to redo existing screenshots with Designer if we agree on this.
> Hopefully the git repository can then also serve as good starting points to
> create more screenshots. Shall I proceed?

+1 from me. I don't see any downside to this.
Sketchy wireframes are preferred if you want to make clear that you're at an 
early design stage where things can still be changed easily, but this is not 
the case here. We want our HIGs to look finished, not sketchy.