Re: [Usability] HIG: File New/Open/Quit, etc.

2009-03-26 Thread Murray Cumming
I am surprised that nobody has an opinion about this. I was worried about bike-shedding. On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 09:23 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > I'd like the HIG to contain some simple suggestions for document-based > applications that are not tabbed. I'd like to avoid general conceptual > stuf

Re: [Usability] HIG: File New/Open/Quit, etc.

2009-03-26 Thread anthony
I sent it to Murray but it have to be sent to the mailing-list... (a mistake) HI, Yes, i think it could be good to do a list of thing that document-based applications have to provide. You will be able to see what apps provide it or not. I think you could start some "ui-guide" that give the

Re: [Usability] HIG: File New/Open/Quit, etc.

2009-03-26 Thread anthony
Murray Cumming a écrit : On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 17:37 +0100, anthony wrote: I answer to you, but the mail hasn't reached you... You are not answering on the mailing list and your email is hard for me to understand. That's why i sent my mail on the mailing-list :) I said : HI,

Re: [Usability] HIG: File New/Open/Quit, etc.

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:23 AM, usability-boun...@gnome.org wrote: ... Are there objections to the HIG saying this, in the appropriate sections?: 0. An application is "document-based" if it loads and saves documents. Agreed as far as it goes, but I'm not sure this is a useful definition. Is PiT

Re: [Usability] HIG: File New/Open/Quit, etc.

2009-03-26 Thread Vadim Peretokin
Just to note, I dislike Epiphany's removal of File -> Quit. They didn't seem to think through the case where one would want to close the browser, and the open it again, with the same tabs open - which current file->quit accomplishes. ___ Usability mailing

Re: [Usability] HIG: File New/Open/Quit, etc.

2009-03-26 Thread Steve Fosdick
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 22:12 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Agreed except for the last two. > > For "Save", it shouldn't be a requirement of HIG compliance that an > application requires users to understand the distinction between RAM > and disk (an increasingly irrelevant distinction as