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The GNOME Human Interface Guidlines

Posted Aug 22, 2002 3:31 UTC (Thu) by WzDD (guest, #933)
Parent article: The GNOME Human Interface Guidlines

The HIG is a very wonderful and important piece of work, but the GNOME/KDE sniping is starting to bother me. Why do they need to include their "challenge"? It is inflammatory and unproductive. Rather than snipe at KDE for NIH syndrome, perhaps they could have based their guidelines on the voluminous KDE User Interface Guidelines, which have been around for years? The answer is obvious: because the GNOME crowd didn't invent it.

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Posted Aug 22, 2002 4:33 UTC (Thu) by pglennon (guest, #649) [Link]

I think it might be more fair to say that the Gnome camp has a bit of a higher plan for their interface guidelines than their own software. The KDE interface guidlines focus on development and integration of KDE software, where as Gnome's Human Interface Guidelines clearly have aspirations ( if not content ) focusing on how to create user interfaces in the free software environment that best serve users.

All that being said, there was undoubtedly a better way to craft the "invitation".

Cheers,
svoloch

The GNOME Human Interface Guidlines

Posted Aug 22, 2002 5:01 UTC (Thu) by drfickle (guest, #1093) [Link]

The paragraph was later updated to a less "aggressive" tone. Seth stated that he regrets the wording that went out initially and blames Canada for it.