B.K.O HIG Triage
September 13th, 2008
| Categories: Design, General, KDE/Kubuntu
Good News: All 25 HIG bugs have been updated!
More Good News: 15 of the bugs were closed!
Bad News: I’ve now got 6 really big guidelines to research and write.
So - where are current KDE HIG?
@mikmach
I take your reply as some sort of “offense” reaction. Actually I don’t know where KDE has its HIG. But does it matter ? What matters is, that KDE offers the most consistent Look & Feel than other Desktop Environements. I actually know that GNOME has a HIG but sadly no one is following it as you can see within their applications. I know that because I am a GNOME user and use the latest release of GNOME. KDE is much more consistent in appeal, looks, behave and intuitivines.
@milkmach
usability.kde.org/hig
@machmike
seemed like an honest question to me. stop being a troll.
KDE4 HIG:
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG
Our summer interns are finishing up the last bit of their work. Hopefully there will be another 10 topics or so added by the end of the month.
@machmike: We’ve taken a different approach in the KDE4 HIG than was taken for older HIGs or how the GNOME HIG was written. We aren’t trying to document every widget-level interaction. We are focusing on pattern-level examples to help developers solve the hardest design problems first and then writing whichever “exception” guidelines we get the most questions for. Eventually this will grow in to a more useful knowledge-base than a formally written document which no one wants to read.
@seele: older style was easier to address :/
Yay seele! yay! yay! yay!
> I actually know that GNOME has a HIG but
> sadly no one is following it as you can see
> within their applications
No one follows the KDE HIG either. What about all the KDE applications with tabs?
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170995
As much as I respect the KDE developers, and the HIG maintainers such as Celeste, we should not be so critical of competing projects. This is especially true when pointing out flaws in their software that exist in KDE as well.
That said, I should imagine that in KDE at least progress can be made either bringing the applications in line with the HIG, or bringing the HIG in line with the applications. Having open bug reports on the subject is a first step.