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The GNOME Journal, April Edition

Submitted by claus on Fri, 2006-04-21 10:14. GNOME

The latest issue of the GNOME Journal has just been published. It features insights into the Portland Project which were gained from a conversation with one of its lead architects, Waldo Bastian, an introduction to GNOME's new deskbar, an interview with Elijah Newren, GNOME's release manager, and three simple tips for designing application interfaces you should know. Writers in this edition are Sri Ramakrishna, Davyd Madeley, Lucas Rocha, and Claus Schwarm, respectively.

As a regular user of OS-X,

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Sun, 2006-04-23 12:39.

As a regular user of OS-X, GNOME and Win XP, I'd say they all have their HI issues. Surprisingly many in the Mac. In the case of GNOME though, is it better to be bad but consistant, in which case it is broken behaviour that the user can adapt to, rather than not have guidelines, in which cae the user will experience inconsistancy? I look at the HIG as something that will improve with age, the important thing when making any decision on what is right is to document the reasoning behind it.

I'm more concerned about Tango than GNOMEs HIG quite honestly. If THEIR mission is to make icons more obvious (Among other things) then many of their choices are fundamentally WRONG. The problem with any user interface decision making is that it is often subjective and people often think they should do things a certain way because that is what they are most used to seeing so "It must be right".

I'm going somewhere with this, I think. LOL. GNOME has a chance to make a better UI but only by being bold and dropping some outdated UI paradigms. This is something that will be helped along by projects such as Dashboard and integration of search and metadata use. The area that would give the quickest improvement is window behaviour, positioning and interaction. Which is not sane on any current OS.

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