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ComplianceCompliancePosted Feb 6, 2003 5:59 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)Parent article: The Open-HCI project launches Reconciling the guidelines is a good start. Perhaps the project can spin off an auditing project to rate how well the various programs conform to the guidelines, and (more importantly) keep a scoreboard/checklist of specific known violations in current releases of KDE and Gnome programs. The exhortations in both lists of guidelines to eschew "yes" and "no" button labels in dialog boxes -- each advises putting active verbs on the buttons -- is widely ignored, even in flagship programs like Evolution and Gnumeric. (I don't know how well KDE programs comply.) A violations pillory might be just what it takes to give the guidelines teeth, and also to keep the guidelines tuned to real-world relevance.
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Compliance of central applications Posted Feb 9, 2003 1:18 UTC (Sun) by xkahn (subscriber, #1575) [Link] Well, to be fair Evolution and Gnumeric were both designed and written before the HIG was written. It would be difficult to follow guidlines which don't exist yet, and it's unfair to judge an application to a standard which post-dates it.Of course, both projects are being ported to GNOME 2 (GNOME 2.2 rather) and I have every confidence that they will adapt most, if not all, of the HIG. (Note: Yes, I work for Ximian. No, I haven't tried Evolution 1.3 yet. Why? Well, I just got it installed yesterday...)
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