[eclipse.org-planning-council] FW: [ui-best-practices-working-group] RE

["Mike Milinkovich" <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What was the decision with respect to enforcing these UI guidelines for
projects included in Ganymede?

Mike Milinkovich
Office: +1.613.224.9461 x228
Mobile: +1.613.220.3223
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mik Kersten [mailto:beatmik@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:30 PM
To: 'User Interface Architecture Working Group'
Cc: mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ui-best-practices-working-group] RE: Eclipse User Interface
Guidelines and UI Checklist

The UI Checklist is now ready for a final review, after which we can
determine how best to let people know about the checklist and guidelines:

   http://wiki.eclipse.org/UI_Checklist

   205326: Update the checklist for developers
   https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=205326

Mik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ui-best-practices-working-group-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ui-
> best-practices-working-group-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Kimberley Peter
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:35 AM
> To: mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx; User Interface Architecture Working
> Group
> Cc: 'UI Best Practices Working Group'; ui-best-practices-working-group-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] RE: Eclipse User
> Interface Guidelines and UI Checklist
> 
> Mike,
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I'm sure others have additional thoughts on this.
> 
> I can offer that we decided to focus on a "Do Do" this round because:
> 
> 1) it gave contributors a short list of "if you do anything do this",
> which we thought was more important than Don't Dos, and
> 2) it was what we could accomplish in that time.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Kim
> ...................................................................
> UI Design . Rational Software
> IBM Toronto Media Design Studio
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   From:       "Mike Milinkovich" <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>   To:         "'UI Best Practices Working Group'" <ui-best-practices-
> working-group@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>   Date:       12/03/2007 01:13 AM
> 
>   Subject:    [ui-best-practices-working-group] RE: Eclipse User
> Interface      Guidelines and UI Checklist
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bob et al,
> 
> Thanks for this. It is a small but positive step.
> 
> I am curious if there is an intent to update the "Don't Do" list...I
> thought that looked as helpful as the "Do Do".
> 
> Mike Milinkovich
> Office: +1.613.224.9461 x228
> Mobile: +1.613.220.3223
> mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Fraser [mailto:bfraser@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 6:48 PM
> > To: Mike Milinkovich; 'Bjorn Freeman-Benson'; UI Best Practices
> > Working Group
> > Subject: Eclipse User Interface Guidelines and UI Checklist
> >
> > Bjorn, Mike and others,
> >
> > The  User Interface Best Practices Working Group has added 3.x
> updates
> > to the Eclipse User Interface Guidelines.  Additional content as been
> > provided in areas such as, ³UI Graphics², ³Property Views² and
> > ³Context Menus².
> > The
> > latest revision of the document can always be found on the wiki at:
> >
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/User_Interface_Guidelines
> >
> > With regard to the direction that ³Ganymede projects should follow
> the
> > UI
> > Guidelines²: Of course project members should refer to the entire
> > document and follow it as much as is practical.  However, the
> > guidelines are expansive, so the UI Best Practices Working Group, has
> > put together a UI Checklist of a dozen items as a ?short list¹ of
> > important items.
> >
> > It is challenging to put together a short list everyone can agree on,
> > but we have endeavored to make these items relevant, actionable, and
> > doable.
> > This
> > list can be found at:
> >
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/UI_Checklist
> >
> > None of this is a set of tablets from the mount and we welcome dialog
> > on the mailing list, ui-best-practices-working-group@xxxxxxxxxxx, via
> > the guidelines update process,
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/UI_Best_Practices_Update_Process or, for the
> > checklist, on bugzilla
> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=205326
> > <file://localhost/bugs/show_bug.cgi>
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Bob Fraser
> >
> >
> >
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