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Open-HCI Announced

Submitted by stro on Sun, 2003-02-02 15:14. Usability

Aaron J. Seigo of the KDE project announces:

Seth Nickell (GNOME Usability Project), Havoc Pennington (Free Desktop,
GNOME), and JP Schnapper-Casteras (Free Desktop Accessibility Working Group)
and myself have been discussing the possibility of co-locating the KDE and
GNOME Human Interface Guides (HIGs).
The plan as discussed thus far is to have the two documents co-inhabit one XML
document. Within this document, each HIG will have its own sections as
appropriate and will remain available for separate viewing. The goal is to
have one URL (on www.FreeDesktop.org) and one document for developers to go
to for KDE and GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. We hope this site can
eventually house guidelines for multiple desktops and graphical toolkits.

The easier we can make it for developers to discover and follow such
guidelines the better it will be for Open Source desktops in general. Since
KDE apps are often run on GNOME and vice versa, developers should be able to
easily reference the guidelines for all the desktops they expect their app to
be run on.

Having a shared document will also allow us to start looking at commonalities
between the documents and perhaps create common chapters or sections on basic
guidelines and lessons that are desktop and toolkit-independent (e.g.,
accessibility and internationalization tips, general usability principles).

It will take some work to merge the documents, create a web site, and raise
awareness about the site for developers and people working on other non-KDE
non-GNOME HIGs. If you wish to join us in these efforts, please subscribe to
the open-hci@freedesktop.org email list via the web interface at:

https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-hci/

Best wishes to everyone!

- --
Aaron J. Seigo

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even more important

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2003-02-03 06:55.

I had the idea that I had forgotten something, and now I know it again. It wasn't the Ctrl + Esc thing that I also wanted to whine about, but it was the location of the desktop in the filesystem.

Maybe it would take some more cooperation with KDE before it is OK to use a normal ~/desktop/ directory, but it is highly necessary. Because if you want people to use the desktop to store files and stuff (as GNOME wants, indicated by the fact that it IS possible), it shouldn't be a hidden location in the FS.

You can say: it isn't hidden; you can access it with Nautilus easily, and it's painted on your desktop for crying out loud -- but the point is, you can't easily access it from gedit or other GNOME apps, let alone from Mozilla or other non-GNOME apps.

Here again, the OSX solution (just dropping a dekstop/ directory on the user's $HOME) seems the best to me.

Greets,

Pflipp

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