On Sunday 12 March 2006 15:02, Robert Staudinger wrote: > Hello, > > we AbiWord developers are pretty excited to be considered for > inclusion on the OLPC. Currently however our user interface doesn't > work very well on small screen resolutions. > What I'm wondering is if/how the gnome HIG applies to the OLPC. Off > the top of my head i'd see quite some difference regarding the target > audience. > > At [1] you will find mockups of a more screen real estate conscious > AbiWord user interface. It's heavily inspired by [2] but does away > with the traditional menu/toolbar split. Every toplevel menuitem has a > default action assigned as a toolbar button. Further toolbuttons are > in a separate toolbar which is wrapped into an own line. > My personal favourites are (2) and (3); please disregard (5), this is > a browser mockup. > > What do you think about that approach? > > [1] http://www.abisource.com/~rob/tmp/mockups.png > [2] http://tango-project.org/Window_Experiments > > Best regards, > Rob > Interface guidelines like the HIG are important, and should not be disregarded lightly. However, we are working in a very limited environment, so we do have to take that into consideration. I think we can reach a strong compromise that takes care of users' needs while doing so in an efficient manner that takes the limited display and hardware into account. I like where these ideas are headed. They seem very promising, and I'm glad that such thought is being put into this. I won't bother to pick favorites, as that really depends upon usage cases, but the overall ideas are wonderful, and I see no reason not to adopt them. -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64 n-man com http://www.n-man.com/ Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ --
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