[ui-best-practices-working-group] RE: Eclipse User Interface Guidelines

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

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
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> -----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 Œshort 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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