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Idea #9169: unify kde, gnome HIG



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Written by mangar the 28 May 08 at 06:49. Category: Look and Feel.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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HIG - Human interface Guidelines - how an application should behave, common location of buttons, etc.

Users needn't care about the underlying toolkits, but only about the application.
currently, gnome applications on kde, and vice versa, looks totally out of place, not only because of different themes/fonts, but also because their HIG is incompatible in many ways.

I suggest creating an OpenHIG.org, or similar site, that will publish guidelines for the free desktop HIG, and that all open desktop environments and applications will conform to it.
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schmappel wrote on the 28 May 08 at 14:42
I believe there already is such a thing:
http://www.freedesktop.org/

Vadim P. wrote on the 28 May 08 at 15:11
-1 because I prefer the Gnome HIG over the KDE one. While I do use some KDE apps, and they don't fit, I can adapt.

mangar wrote on the 1 Jun 08 at 10:28
HIG is not the tool-kit, but a document that describes how the user interaction with the software should be.

Moderator droetker (Moderator) wrote on the 4 Jul 08 at 05:52
@Vadim P: You didn't understand: You can't adapt the placement of buttons, or the different behavoiur of KDE, e.g. when you change a checkbox, that the effect is visual without pressing the ok button (like in GNOME).
First Read, then think, then vote.

Vadim P. wrote on the 4 Jul 08 at 13:44
Yes, that's what I did, thanks.

By unifying the HIG's it means you either make Gnome use KDE HIG, KDE use Gnome HIG, or pick out pieces of both.

Considering that the KDE 4 HIG isn't even half finished (I'm not joking), playing with kde's hig isn't exactly a good thing.


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