Re: Mockups and stuff

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 17:46 +0100, Robert Staudinger wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> it has been brought to my attention that the OLPC hardware will
> feature a resolution of 640x480 in colour mode and about 1000x800 in
> black/white.
>
> AbiWord (gtk) never did particularly well on low res displays, so I
> made a few mockups how a simplified UI could look[1]. It draws a lot
> of inspiration from [2] and [3], the main difference however is that
> the menu/toolbar split doesn't exist. All menuitems have a tool-button
> with a default action assigned (see bottom mockup). The leftmost
> toolbutton represents the icon metaphor in the file manager (oh how i
> love buzzwords).
>
> Please take that with a grain of salt, we all[4] know that
> - The HIG is better than any religion (which renders this heresy).
> - Developers cannot design UIs.
> - The vocal minority is bad.
> - I'm not wearing my orange sunglasses.
> - The mockups have NOT been created with inkscape.
>
> There are no immediate plans for implementing this evil stuff. I have
> not yet been able to find out if/how closely OLPC software follows the
> GNOME HIG. If anyone could shed light on that issue would be much
> appreciated.
>

Hi Rob,
        This is very interesting indeed and prolly not too hard to
implement. Do we have some feedback from the OLPC on what sort of
interface they want? My guess is that a first approximation might be the
Nokia N770 builds but even they assume a 800x600 resolution display.

Anyway, this is where we need to engage the OLPC guys to get some clue
as to what they want from us. eg We've put a lot of work into the
pangofied graphics class, do they want that for the first OLPC release?
Can they live with a cleaned up to 2.4.x release?

Cheers

Martin

> [1] http://www.abisource.com/~rob/tmp/mockups.png
> [2] http://tango-project.org/Window_Experiments
> [3] http://gnome.org/~robsta/bongo.html
> [4] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/
>
> Best,
> Rob
Received on Mon Mar 13 01:50:42 2006