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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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
One year ago, some people from linaccess, barrierefrei kommunizieren, KDE Accessibility and Usability (including myself) passed a weekend on testing the usability of FLOSS accessibility solutions - you might remember our reports from the Accessibility meets Usability weekend. Among others, the Gnopernicus screen reader was usability tested by two blind ...
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