[openbeos] Re: (G)UI design, round 2 (split from: Patch: Prettifying the default decorator)

Thom Holwerda wrote:

On 2/26/07, Thomas Winwood <ketsuban@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What may be best is to put together a team of experienced BeOS/Haiku
developers with decent UI experience to fine tune the UI guidelines
and the look and feel. Maybe some things could be debated, but in
general experienced people just need to make a decision and stick with
it.


I don't know how bloody obvious this question is (if at all) but did Be,
Inc. itself not have a HIG like i.e. Apple and GNOME? I know one was never
published (iirc), but I could poke a few ex-Be engineers or Bernd to see if
something along these lines exist.

If not, I think one has to be written. You cannot expect Haiku developers
(let alone 3rd party developers) to intuitively code (G)UIs that are in line
with other applications. You need guidelines for that.
They already exist and are mostly finished. There's some more work to be done (mostly style and a small correction), but in its current state developers have plenty to get a good idea of what to do. 

--DarkWyrm

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