RE: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Eclipse User Interface Guidelines and

[Ed Merks <merks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mik,

+1

I think projects should be encouraged  to do the best they can toward the
goal of making Eclipse as a whole more cohesive; paying heed to these
simple clear rules is a good step in that direction.


Ed Merks/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
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Anyone object to my adding the following entry the Encouraged listing?
While it is a late addition it is a ?should? and I think that having a
pointer there will be helpful when projects take a pass through the
Ganymede requirements.

      2. Should follow the UI Checklist

Mik

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David M Williams
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Subject: [eclipse.org-planning-council] Eclipse User Interface Guidelines
and UI Checklist


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

> So I guess to answer Mike's question, we really haven't made a
> decision on how to proceed with this yet. From what I remember of
> the discussion we kinda got overwelmed by the weight of the details
> and it fizzled out.

I remember it differently. Though end result is similar.

I recall we explicitly decided not to even consider having any
UI-checklist-like requirement for Ganymede, since the spec wasn't done at
our last meeting, (hence, how could we even decide) and given that the UI
group itself said the checklist they had then was not so much for
"compliance checking" as it was for for "best practices" -- then it seemed
especially unlikely there could ever possibly be anything that could be
_required_ of Projects.

At that meeting Bob committed that they would work on having a new,
separate list more suitable for compliance checking, I guess that's what
this list is? But ... it would require a whole new review and discussion,
and doubt there's time to realistically expect a "must do".

There was also a concern that UI checklists would not lead to increased
usability, it's a necessary part, but not sufficient, and, we feared, was a
small part of the harder question of "do these components work well
together?".

We did acknowledge, however, that the user community could certainly open
bugs if a UI "did not meet guidelines" and these bugs would be valid and
prioritized along with any other bugs reported.

And, I believe, we Projects hope there is a lot of community scrutiny of
these guidelines and our implementation of them. Anything that can be done
to encourage the community of end users to apply that scrutiny would be
helpful, I think.  How about "I love UI bugs" t-shirts?  :)

Oh, and we did, however, invent a new whole new category for UI issues --
"encouraged". See
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Ganymede

= = = =
Encouraged


We added a third, even weaker, category of recommendations:
1.        Should participate in a User Interface Best Practices Working
Group UI walkthrough.
= = = =


So ... not the same as "fizzled out" ... but, no concrete actions dictated.
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