Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Finally, the dialog section in the HIG has made some progress. Thank to Olaf who knows Qt Designer much better than I do, we found a way to create a clean dialog layout for KDE4. The trick is to use the same ratio of spacers on bottom of each group ...
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
A few weeks ago, Celeste posted specs for standard toolbars for the major KDE applications. Now, we wrote down some general guidelines. Again, please review and give feedback in the comments section, or write to me (ellen kde org). There are still screenshots missing for the standard toolbars.
Especially, we'd appreciate ...
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
@ 800x600 rule
So far, I'm not sure if we should go for a fixed maximum size or a maximum default size. There is one good reason for a strict maximum size: It better prevents configuration dialogs from being overloaded. "Designing for 800x600" may be understood as "hey, it fits onto ...
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
I started to write down some guidelines for configuration dialogs in KDE4. The major differences to KDE3 are:
Do not overload your configuration dialogs!
Avoid the usage of tree views in the sidebar of paged dialogs.
Set the dialog's maximum size to 800x600 Pixels.
Make sure all dialog pages are sized ...
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
In November, OpenUsability announced six mentored projects for students of usability, user interface design, interaction design, or related. We received applications from all over the world - New Zealand, India, South Africa, Europe, South America, USA and Canada. Most of the applicants were highly skilled, and it was sometimes difficult ...
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