New workgroup for better coordination

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 11:04, Olaf Jan Schmidt wrote:
> One of the workgroups will include all projects working on Human/Computer
> Interactions (HCI), which means accessibility, artwork, translations, and
> usability. Gunnar and I (from accessibility) have agreed to contact these
> teams and ask them to find representatives for it.
>
> The tasks for the workgroup will be:
> * Keeping track of all people involved with KDE HCI efforts
> * Keeping the other HCI contributors in the loop on discussions and
> decisions relevant to their part in KDE
> * Ensuring that other parts of KDE are informed about our activities, and
> letting them know about issues that are important to us

Might I suggest one additional immediate concrete step?

* Under KDE standards, 
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/index.html , there are links 
to _three_ HCI guidelines:

1) http://developer.kde.org/documentation/design/ui/(5 years old), some stuff 
about task design and not specifically about KDE code as far as I can tell.

2) KDE UI guidelines, 
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/basics/ , which 
does seem to be normative wrt. KDE code.

3) KCM guidelines, 
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/kcontrol_style/ which 
are about wording & layout of KCMs.

None of the three are laid out consistently and none match the layout of the 
rest of developer.kde.org, so the first and most obvious contact that 
developers have with UI guidelines is that they are a complete mess. I have 
this vague suspicion that there is gobs of other HIG work _somewhere else_ 
that isn't easy to find. Since anyone can fix up things on d.k.o, a concrete 
task would be to sort out these mixed-up documents (svn co 
https://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/developer.kde.org).

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