July 12th, 2007 admin
"Usability Stammtisch Berlin" is an open event for all Berliners interested in usability. We meet each month (2nd Wednesday, 19.30) at the newthinking store in Berlin/Mitte. Each week, a usability-related topic is presented and discussed.
This week, we meet at the bar "Blaues Band" in Berlin Mitte to socialise ...
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May 19th, 2007 admin
Today Olaf published the second checklist in the scope of the HIG Hunting Session - it is about Text and Fonts.
Just like last week, we ask users of the KDE 4 Alpha release to review applications along checklists and report infringements in the bug tracking system. More details in the ...
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May 10th, 2007 admin
Yesterday, the usability review cycle for KDE4 started. As the HCI working group is poor on man-power, we started an experiment to include the community into the search for obvious infringements of the KDE Human Interface Guidelines: The HIG Hunting Season.
If you recently had a look at the HIG's start ...
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April 18th, 2007 admin
As the result of a long discussion on kde-core-devel, I summarised the suggested application and system shortcuts for KDE4:
Standard Keyboard Shortcuts
About Shortcuts and Accelerators
[The table isn't formatted yet - are there volunteers to make it look like these ones? I really hate tables in MediaWiki...]
The suggested shortcuts are a summary ...
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March 27th, 2007 admin
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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