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[James Gifford <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott, I apologize for cc'ing you. 

A HIG would promote consistency - consistency is best for the user, because (just to pick one example)  if Nautilus has its preferences pane stored under "Edit > Preferences", then all applications should have them stored under "Edit > Preferences", and not "Tools > Preferences" or "View > Preferences" or something else. 


It's all about consistency. The way it is right now, we are "consistently inconsistent". 

Cheers,
James Gifford
http://jamesrgifford.com

On Sep 7, 2011, at 14:00, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since you included me on the CC list ...
> 
> No.  We don't all agree it's necessary.  Some of us think such things are 
> actively harmful.
> 
> Scott K
> 
> On Wednesday, September 07, 2011 01:31:56 PM James Gifford wrote:
>> Ok, so reading through the thread, we all agree it's necessary - someone
>> just needs to write it and present it for peer review and (hopefully)
>> eventual adoption.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> James Gifford
>> http://jamesrgifford.com
>> 
>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 3:59, "Stefanos A." <stapostol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Every desktop environment has its own set HIG. Unity is sufficiently
>>> different than Gnome Shell or KDE4 that it merits some form of
>>> guidelines, even if they are as simple as "must work with the global
>>> menu, must offer a tailored launcher menu and must follow global font
>>> settings". Most of these will be inherited from Gnome Shell and the rest
>>> will be additions for Unity-specific functionality (i.e. they will be
>>> supplementary rather than divisive).
>>> 
>>> Above all, canonical applications (as in Canonical *and* canonical) must
>>> follow these guidelines to the letter. Ubuntu One and the Software
>>> Center currently stick out like sore thumbs from the rest of the
>>> desktop. Not good at all.
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