Development Update - BloGTK and Usability

A quick update on the progress of BloGTK 2.0. Right now the focus is on getting the MetaWeblog API support working correctly. So far, so good on that front, although there’s a lot of testing to make sure it all works correctly.

There’s also an article that every open-source developer should read on why Free Software tends to have bad usability. BloGTK 1 could be the poster child for that—it’s UI design was atrocious—and I’ll be the first to admit it. I do care about usability, but developing a usable interface is a difficult skill to learn. BloGTK 2.0 is going to get a lot of usability work as development continues, especially when it gets loosed on the world.

More as development continues.

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One Response to “Development Update - BloGTK and Usability”

  1. Vadim P. Says:
    August 5th, 2008 at 3:52 am

    I’m a type who’s interested in usability (printed out the Gnome HIG, designed several gui’s), so I would be interested in helping out :)

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