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I've been reading for some months now that many kde apps are being ported to QT4. Some are already QT4 compatible. That sounds great.

My question is : where is the kde 4 Human Interface Guidelines ?

Right now, correct me if I'm wrong there is no KDE4 HIG available. Not yet.

All I found was : a KDE 4 Human Interface Guidelines Developers Survey by Celeste Lyn Paul, June 2006 (check it out here) and a KDE4 Human Interface Guidelines Information Design Document also by Celest Lyn Paul (here July 2006).
It shows kde staff and developers are concerned about that matter and work on it. But well, we're in january 2007. KDE4 is supposed to be out sometime during this year.

I'm asking this because I find quite weird to hear people porting apps from QT3 to QT4 without having some sort of direction. I'm no pure coder and I understand it's possible to 'translate' QT3 code into QT4 code. But considering all the new stuff QT4 is going to bring over, I think that would have been a good thing for developers to have some kind of Interface reference before kde4 is out.

At this moment people might be coding new apps using QT4 without the relevant HIG or using KDE3 HIG which might, afaik, in many cases, conflict (from an interface point of view) with QT4.

Well if you have information about KDE4 HIG feel free to share.

Well you tell me kde3 hig won't conflict with qt4 and I trust you since I'm not much of a coder.
So I understand when kde4 will be out it will 'mostly' look the way kde3 look and it will take some time to found and polish the kde4 HIG.

That is a huge disappointment to me and I believe for lot of people out there. You can put a rocket engine in an old car, engineers can be impressed by the design, for most people it's still an old car. Of course it's still better than a Ferrari with a Ford T engine ;-)

Anyway I hope people will find in kde4 some of the things they have dreamed of.