Hi Rob,
>>1. Just as a reminder: the GTK/GNOME port with its HIG is not the only
>>port we have.
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> Developers should not be limited to the speed of the slowest progressing
> platform (whichever that may be). Especially in feature coding time.
This has nothing to do with speed. As a primary Windows user, I do like
some aspects of HIG, so of it on usability grounds, some of it because
at times it treats the user like an illiterate idiot who does not know
what is good for him/her. What matters to me more than what HIG says is
the politically correct way of doing this for GNOME is that the win32
application feels 'normal' to win32 user. By all means, make the gnome
dialogues HIGH compliant, but do not force this on the rest of us.
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>>2. Controversial things are best discussed on this list first before any
>>actual changes are made.
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> I think it's better to patch first than make big words. It can be
> tweaked to fit / reverted anyways. This is HEAD, right?!
No !!! Global changes to the UI are discussed and negotiated. As Alan
pointed out, the menus did not just evolve, there were reasons for
things being done as they were. This is not to say there is no scope for
change, but it is not for any single person to brute force. Doing it
your way, you waste lot of time of lot of people.
Tomas
Received on Mon Feb 21 08:41:32 2005
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