Linked by Osho GG on Mon 19th Jul 2004 18:24 UTC
This is not a typical review of a desktop environment such as KDE or GNOME. These are my observations when I updated from KDE 3.2.3 to KDE 3.3 Beta1.
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> HIG has not seem to of helped Gnome a lot. I would rather use KDE over Gnome any day.
Are you serious? Have you ever used the pre-HIG GNOME 1.x? It erm, *sucked* compared to GNOME 2.x. Just look at the ugly UI of many gtk 1.x apps.
However, I don't think KDE needs a formal HIG as much as GNOME did since much of it's standards being hardcoded *inside* of the libraries. For example, the GNOME HIG specifies margins for many dialogs. The KDE libraries do this automatically for you ( http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/3.1-api/kdeui/html/c... )
That is why to some people's eye, including mine, KDE feels more standardized and intregated than GNOME does, despite not having a large formal HIG.
The only problem with this approach is for applications that don't use kdelibs. It's much easier for an application like firefox, for example to start using GNOME HIG than conform to basic KDE standards.