guys, a couple of days ago Bruce appeared on irc and we had a chat. (Bruce is now subscribed to this list) within a minute we were talking about whether GIMP has a list of known UI design issues. as far as I know we do not have one, it is certainly not part of gui.gimp.org. (I am not talking about a bug list, with nuts and bolts issues, I am talking about a list of medium level to big-picture issues and to-dos. the kind of design tasks I pick for my teaching are medium size ones, see <http://blog.mmiworks.net/search/label/teaching> ) Immediately I realised this list is missing and that there are real benefits to maintaining a list like that: - a clear list of design tasks to pick one from for people who want to contribute or run projects in interaction design; - GIMP as a project says clearly ‘yes, we know we have problem with XYZ in the UI.’ this can make certain discussions a lot shorter, by pointing at the list. also I feel that _part_ of the ‘GIMP has so far to go’ feedback that the 2.8 release gets is caused by us not communicating ‘yes, we have problems.’ - coordinating between open technical project work (GEGL migration, etc.) and interaction design project work. - the big picture concerning UI becomes clearer because it is written down. so far so good. but while talking to Bruce I realised that there are a couple of side effects to this list that make me hesitate to just go and get started with compiling it: - just thinking of what I can contribute to this list, I know that this list is _not_ going to be short. also because all the issues that I can put on it are ‘medium level to big-picture,’ none of them are going to be trivial to solve. thus my hesitation is what this is going to make GIMP look like, and if the definitions of open worked where meant to stretch this far. - all of the issues that will end up on the list have been created by contributors to GIMP. some of these issues have been created 10 years ago, some of them last month. I wonder what it will feel like to GIMP contributors when something they just made, almost ‘immediately and automatically,’ (at least, feels like that to them) ends up on the UI issue list. so I would like to hear some opinion on this. --ps founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works http://blog.mmiworks.net: on interaction architecture _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
