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Balazs: KDE human interface guidelines: First steps
On his blog, Björn Balazs writes about the recent effort to "reboot" the KDE human interface guidelines (HIG). There are three major sections in the HIG (structure, behavior, and presentation) and the team has a first draft of the behavior section. "We explicitly ask about your opinion. Please read the guidelines and make sure that the text is informative and comply with developers' requirements. The content should be both generic and comprehensive, and help to make KDE awesome. But we are also interested in support. If you are able to create nice sample UIs with Qt please contact the usability team via the kde-guidelines mailinglist."
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Balazs: KDE human interface guidelines: First steps Posted Aug 26, 2013 4:54 UTC (Mon) by kolbusa (subscriber, #71166) [Link]
I wish there was an item in Gnome and KDE HIGs that stated that there shall not be any wasted space (see http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/files/2013/08/displays.png).
Balazs: KDE human interface guidelines: First steps Posted Aug 27, 2013 13:31 UTC (Tue) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link]
Well, up to the whole screen lacking any deliberately empty space. There's a phenomenon in typography, layout and design where a good proportion of un-busy space is needed to add an elegant balance to the real business of your screen.
Personally, I've paid for expensive pixels and have cheap desk space around my screen to achieve that balance. Maybe it should be configurable or themed, but the upshot is that the people who claim -- whether or not it's a claim that stands up -- that they know beauty and elegance insist on empty (which I assume you would call wasted) space.
K3n.
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