Re: Mockups and stuff

Hi Rob,

I *really* like that interface, but I would hope that there would be
some UI standartisation over the OLPC project as whole; I have no idea
how they might decide to tackle it (hopefully not by designing a whole
app framework as Nokia did, as that requires to make and maintain yet
another port.) If you would be willing to pursue this whole thing on the
OLPC list, etc., on our behalf, it would be much appreciated.

Tomas

Robert Staudinger wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> it has been brought to my attention that the OLPC hardware will
> feature a resolution of 640x480 in colour mode and about 1000x800 in
> black/white.
>
> AbiWord (gtk) never did particularly well on low res displays, so I
> made a few mockups how a simplified UI could look[1]. It draws a lot
> of inspiration from [2] and [3], the main difference however is that
> the menu/toolbar split doesn't exist. All menuitems have a tool-button
> with a default action assigned (see bottom mockup). The leftmost
> toolbutton represents the icon metaphor in the file manager (oh how i
> love buzzwords).
>
> Please take that with a grain of salt, we all[4] know that
> - The HIG is better than any religion (which renders this heresy).
> - Developers cannot design UIs.
> - The vocal minority is bad.
> - I'm not wearing my orange sunglasses.
> - The mockups have NOT been created with inkscape.
>
> There are no immediate plans for implementing this evil stuff. I have
> not yet been able to find out if/how closely OLPC software follows the
> GNOME HIG. If anyone could shed light on that issue would be much
> appreciated.
>
> [1] http://www.abisource.com/~rob/tmp/mockups.png
> [2] http://tango-project.org/Window_Experiments
> [3] http://gnome.org/~robsta/bongo.html
> [4] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/
>
> Best,
> Rob
Received on Mon Mar 13 09:39:09 2006