Thanks for the reply. My experience is in embedded systems where you have more control of event timing in general. For general-purpose computing, there are no time constraints placed on applications for how long they will take to respond to user interactions. A button click can take 10 ms or 10 min. The user does not control that and the GUI system and kernel do not enforce any timing constraints.
Perhaps I don't know your environment well enough to even pose the question. But I am wondering if any thought has been given to requiring apps and environments to guarantee response times. An example constraint would be application start up time. When a user starts an application, the application must present the main window within 3 seconds. Thanks, Martin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:20 PM To: Martin Harris Cc: usability@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Usability] FW: UI Responsiveness On 29 Nov 2007, at 22:58, Martin Harris wrote: > Are there any time constraints on HIG in terms of responsiveness? > Yes, see http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/feedback- responsiveness.html.en for the guidelines here. > Also, has there been any talk about making UIs accountable for real- > time responsiveness (low-latency interactivity)? Is there anything > in the overall system that could require a UI to respond in 10 > seconds, 1 second, etc? > Not quite sure what you're getting at here-- could you give an example? Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
