On 31/10/12 12:48, Yorvyk wrote:
During my brief bit of usability testing with software centres
another problem reared it's ugly head. Some of the entries in the
apps menu are remarkable for their meaninglessness and could do with
changing. As an example: Menu > Office > Gnumeric with the tooltip -
'Calculation, Analysis, and Visualisation of Information".
My three users have never really used a spreadsheet and this meant
nothing to them. Their suggestion was to change the menu entry to
'Gnumeric Spreadsheet' or some thing similar, as long as sit
contained the word 'spreadsheet. Abiword was recognised as a
word-processor, but only because it had 'word' in it's name. They
also struggled to find a PDF viewer. Evince is labelled 'Document
Viewer' with the tool tip saying 'View multi-page documents'. No
mention of PDF. I'll be going through the menu later in the week with
a couple of them to see if they can come up with some more obvious
entries. I'll then raise a bug for this.
We had a rather short session on this, but the consensus was that some
entries don't make it obvious what they are. Things like gnumeric and
sylpheed are not well known and don't really give a clue from their name
what they do. I know they have tool-tips to expand the description, but
if you're just opening menus looking for an application these don't show
up until you hover over the entry. The suggestion was to have simple
entries like spreadsheet or email. When I suggested that some people may
have more than one spreadsheet or word-processor installed they were
puzzles why, but agreed that some thing like sylpheed e-mail client
would be OK. So we ended up with the following, others may need to be
dealt with, but these were the most obvious in the short time we had.
Audacious Music Player
Calculator - (with a 'C' not a 'G' as this looks like a typo)
Evince PDF Viewer
Gnumeric Spreadsheet
Guvcview Web-cam viewer
Leafpad Editor
Mplayer Video Player
Sylpheed E-mail Client
Transmission Bit-torrent
Xpad Notes
We'll have a look at others and the tool tips next time I see them.
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Steve
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