Panel plugin UI guidelines

[Diego Ongaro]

On Dec 16, 2007 5:51 PM, Christian Dywan <christian at twotoasts.de> wrote:
> Am Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:30:05 -0600
> schrieb "Diego Ongaro" <ongardie at gmail.com>:
>
> > On Dec 15, 2007 5:53 AM, Christian Dywan <christian at twotoasts.de>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I find interface consistency very important and providing
> > > guidelines to assist developers seems like a very good idea. I like
> > > the idea to have the guide in a wiki page subdivided in Mature and
> > > Draft so that new volunteers can easily help out.
> >
> > I have no idea who you are, but it sounds like you're volunteering.
> > Please?
>
> You don't need to know me. Anyway I've localized a bit of Xfce,
> worked on the wiki and criticized Xfce apps and plugins here and there.
> What I can do really depends on how this project turns out, you know,
> time and all, but I guess I am offering my support. ^_^

Sounds like a decent fit. I recently started trying to categorize
plugins based on how they interact with users (humans) on the wiki
page. I think it's necessary to develop this vocabulary to keep the
guidelines clear and direct. It'd be helpful if someone could expand
on those "classes" and work down the list of plugins and goodies,
placing them as examples in their bins. If we end up with too many in
"Other", we know there's a problem with the classifications.

> > > A question about the naming: what about naming this Panel HIG?
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_guidelines
> > So Microsoft calls them "User Experience Guidelines", Apple and Gnome
> > use HIG, and KDE uses User Interface Guidelines. I certainly want to
> > limit the scope of these guidelines to the panel, but it doesn't
> > matter to me whether we call it the ^Panel (UE|HI|UI)G$.
>
> So I propose Panel HIG as Xfce has certain relations to Gnome and
> MacOS, and because I like the term. I hereby challenge everybody else
> reading this to vote against it. ;)

Feel free to move the wiki page, but please put a redirect (automatic
or not) in the old page's place so that URLs still work.

-Diego