[kde-guidelines] One HIG to rule them all

[Andrew Lake]

Sounds great to me. Just means we need some layout and interaction
guidelines added for small screens added to the existing HIG.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015, 3:27 PM Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org>
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
> With the advent of Plasma Mobile ( http://plasma-mobile.org/ for anybody
> living under a rock), developers for mobile applications of course also
> need
> HIGs.
> A group of people has convened to think about the HIGs for mobile, and we
> came
> to the conclusion that, given that we want applications to be available
> cross-
> platform (though with an optimized UI for each class of devices), the
> mobile
> HIG should not be separated form the desktop HIG.
> Therefore, the idea was to have everything in one place, with "Every HIG
> applies to all devices until it says otherwise" as the default and explicit
> exceptions in the  the cases where the ideal design is different between
> device classes.
> This would have several advantages:
> 1. Less duplicate content
> 2. Raising awareness of the fact that devs should not think about only one
> class of devices if their app makes sense on more than one class
> 3. Those writing the HIGs being aware of all device classes we want our
> software to run on while doing so
>
> Are there any objections to this approach?
> If not, I will begin going throough our HIGs and looking for where device-
> class-specifics are necessary.
>
> Best,
> Thomas
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