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All of the bundled programs have different looks, interfaces, short-cuts, etc. As with the "Human Theme" initiative, all the bundles apps should share common interface themes. It makes it easier to navigate between apps. I know most programs are externally developed, but at least some common design principle's should be adopted/developed/maintained.
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Auzy
wrote on the 16 Mar 08 at 00:10
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I agree, we should clean up a bit, and maybe even improve the integration between different GUI toolkits, so you set 1 theme, and everything follows it.
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I agree with the sort-of-common theme for both gtk/qt.
But, for gnome at least, those guidelines already exist. They are called the HIG. (human interface guidelines, go google them)
When a gnome program is not 100% hig compliant you can file a bug, because it SHOULD be.
No need to convince any one of that. The guidelines exist, and programs are supposed to follow them.
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Yup - applications should follow the HIG - however, people develop for different desktop environments, so integration is difficult.
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Agreed. GTK is a fantastic user interface toolkit because of what it can do for accessibility; every widget scales automatically to fit whatever font I choose, labels are always placed in their associated containers allowing for perfect screen reading, very themeable. However, there are numerous key programs not using the native toolkit, with the end result being a user interface disaster.
Those accessibility features can no longer be completely trusted, and the interface becomes inconsistent, thus difficult to learn. Another detail is centralized preferences. A focus with GNOME is being able to change, for example, menu behaviour, icons and toolbar appearance from a single place and have that change apply everywhere. Again, many programs installed by default in Ubuntu do not follow the necessary standards to do that, which confuses users and makes Ubuntu look very ugly.
Step 1: The web browser!
This one is quite easily remedied, too...
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/229/
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Well, if you stick w/ GTK (as do almost/all of the default apps), then it will. QT is not for Gnome and will never look right.
As for the browser, FF3 (although not GTK) is so much better than Epiphany that it is worth the slight inconsistency, which I personally do not see at all...)
Just my $.02
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