[GNC-dev] Gnome HIG

[Geert Janssens]

Op zondag 16 september 2018 18:56:47 CEST schreef John Ralls:
> > On Sep 16, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > wrote:> 
> > Op vrijdag 14 september 2018 21:37:58 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone:
> >> Since John indicated there is not an effort to adhere to the current
> >> Gnome
> >> HIG, that statement should probably be removed. (as they don’t conform
> >> any
> >> longer)
> >> 
> >> But there are a few places where I think they can be simplified,
> >> particularly some items in the Actions menu should probably be moved to
> >> Tools.
> > 
> > Adrien,
> > 
> > There are certainly lots of improvements to make in user experience. And I
> > welcome improvements in that area in any case. We may not be gnome
> > oriented in the long term, but for now we're still using their toolkit
> > (gtk), so I'm not *against* making Gnome HIG inspired improvements
> > either.
> > 
> > In all the Gnome's HIG recommendations are fairly generic and while
> > reading
> > them I felt most of them are fairly universal. So even if we consider
> > switching gui toolkit in the future several of these general principles
> > will stand.
> > 
> > Which menu items would you move and why ?
> 
> To be clear, I'm also in favor of improving the UI, I just don't think we
> should do it because Gnome says so and I don't think we should be claiming
> in documentation that we pay much attention to anyone's HIG.
> 
+1

Geert