Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] modifiers was - what's wrong with glame
From: Iain Sandoe (iain_AT_sandoe.co.uk)
Date: Sat Jul 28 2001 - 01:54:12 EEST
Sébastien Métrot wrote:
> Isn't it exactely the job of the main X Desktop providers to reach an
> agreement about where such specs should be placed in the users directory and
> what format it should be? (I'm becoming a big fan of xml for such kind of
> settings files but wahtever will do as long as it's a standard that every
> one comply to...).
> I think we should presure on the people make gnome and kde (and some of the
> other big desktop makers) to create a standard concerning user preferences
> about the way the ui should respond and what key bindings the user usualy
> wants for the main option (like open, save, copy, cut, paste, exist, send,
> play, stop, go one word right, go one word left, etc...).
OK. This sounds very much like trying to get a HIG ... but, perhaps,
there's a subtle difference - we aren't trying to define the actual
keystrokes - just where to keep the record.
So we could compose a mail something like:
""
We, in LAD find it difficult to maintain common look-and-feel across
co-operating applications - because there is no common place in which User's
preferences are stored.
We could suggest, perhaps, that a cross-desktop standard place to store
common preferences be created (for example ~/.preferences).
As a minimum this place should store the User's preference for the list of
actions you've named above (plus others, I'm sure people will think of).
access to the preferences could be by a cross-desktop library (saves yal ;-)
this would export appropriate routines for *all* applications to use (if
they choose to be compliant). [there is nothing that actually forces apps
to be HIG-compliant on other OSs except wanting to be easy-to-use]
""
we then post that on kde-devel, gnome-devel etc. etc. and wait for the
explosion ;-))) ... or someone to tell us they've already done it.
> I really believe that such a thing would be a nice step forward for linux in
> the desktop world and as a possible concurent to other oses.
I do agree
- although I still suspect P(success) approx, = 0.5 * sqrt(etc etc)...
> This usualy is a real strength of the other OSes I uses: most of the time
> the programmers keep their UI concistent with the OS's guideline.
the earlier point that a lot of "intuitiveness" is in only having to learn
common things once.
---failing this (probably tall order) ... at least we could try something like it for LAD.
Yeah, I know, "show us the code" well, I'll have to pass on that for now ... driver maintenance is already backed-up to the middle of beyond :-(
ciao, Iain.
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