Thursday, May 10th, 2007
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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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
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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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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