I didn’t really have any content-packed slides to show at the GNOME AGM this afternoon, but here they are anyway for anyone who wants to relive the excitement.
The quick summary for anyone who wasn’t there:
- Over the past 12 months, the GNOME Design Team has collaborated pretty well with folks like the nautilus and control center devs to land the major design changes that those apps have undergone in 3.0, and the GNOME Marketing team to create the new website.
- The GDT has participated in several real and virtual events including the Boston Summit, and the GNOME User Days and #gnome-design Office Hours on IRC.
- SparkleShare continues to rock our world.
- GDT will continue to take a design-led, holistic approach to improving the user experience in GNOME 3.2 and beyond.
- The new HIG… still isn’t quite ready.
It’s fair to say I did feel like a bit of a fraud talking about the design team as “we”… it’s been a while since I’ve been much more than a small and increasingly-distant part of GNOME’s usability history, and I certainly can’t take any of the credit for any of the achievements I was talking about today. (Except the continued non-appearance of the new HIG, which is partly my doing, and we really do hope to have it out there in some form sooner rather than later.)
Finally, many thanks to Jon for helping out with the presentation after a slight logistical mix-up this morning!
Thanks for mentioning my project in your slides, Calum, and I like the “System Settings TM”.
@Meg No problem… as the not-terribly-proactive guardian of the GNOME 2 high contrast theme for many years, I’m glad to see it getting the attention again that it’s needed for quite a while.