KDE Updates (… more like a TODO list)
July 16th, 2008
| Categories: General, KDE/Kubuntu, Usability
- First off, I need to catch up on my day job work so I can get back to KDE. I don’t know what I was thinking taking 4 weeks vacation this summer. I feel like as soon as I catch up, I’m gone again, only to come back and play catchup again.
- One of my goals for the next week (probably this weekend with the way things are going) is to review all of the KDE User Research Profiles and provide feedback to the projects. Afterwards, it will be back to recruiting!
- I need to begin moving some of the KDE4 HIG content the SoU interns have been writing to techbase. Most of their work has been documenting patterns for common UI elements such as list edits and rich information lists. Additionally, they’ve also been filling in guidelines for lower-level widgets such as radio buttons, or capitalization rules.
- More system setting modules need reviewed for guideline compliance and good UI practices. Most modules have only a few tweaks for HIG compliance because their UIs are good. Unfortunately there are a few modules that need more than just tweaking and will require some major redesign. The other problem is finding a developer to fix them.
- KGrubEditor is looking good and hopefully will be ready for a first release soon.
- There are a few other apps on my list to work on for Ibex, but I don’t think they are ready for review yet.
- KDE 4.1 RC1 is out. I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to review between now and the release, but it’s on my list
- MD Loco usability testing has been postponed because we couldn’t secure a location for the date we were planning for and some other logistics. Hopefully we will be able to reschedule for August.
- Finally, I need to continue working on my presentation about the KDE Usability Project for Akademy. There is also some workshop planning to do as well.
So KDE 4.2 will be out soon, since they already released the RC :D
(you should probably fix this in your post ;) )
oops, i was getting ahead of myself :)
What about finishing KDE 4 HIG? (http://wiki.openusability.org/guidelines/index.php/Main_Page)
When you have redesign mockups for the kcms I’ll find people to work on. Also most of them are too big and the scrollbars are not good for EeePCs and sub-notebooks! Regional & Languages -> Keyboard Layout is terrible, the available keyboards are barely seen.
The big problem is the design, coding it is a few minutes matter with QtDesigner.
Anne-Marie
Vadim: That was bullet point #3. We are working on it this summer. The OU wiki was our old workspace. The interns are using wiki.kde.org. Eventually the completed knowledge base will be on techbase.kde.org.
Annma: Yeah, that was one of the reasons I began with the system modules. It probably looks terrible on an Eee, because most of them don’t fit (height) on my 1280×768 laptop screen.