Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets

2010-09-20 Thread Stef Walter
On 2010-09-08 05:40, Johannes Schmid wrote: > Hi Stef! > >> Perhaps this whole dialog needs to be redesigned? We would appreciate >> any usability advice for this dialog. > > I guess so, two problems that I see write away: > * The sentence in your screenshot is "Lock the keyring after 1 minutes"

Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets

2010-09-08 Thread Petr Kovar
Stef Walter , Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:41:48 -0500: > On 2010-09-08 07:17, Petr Kovar wrote: > > Stef Walter , Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:27:48 -0500: > >> * Forget this password after for an amount of time: [X ] minutes > >> * Forget this password after idle for an amount of time. > > > > Note that the tw

Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets

2010-09-08 Thread Stef Walter
On 2010-09-08 07:17, Petr Kovar wrote: > Stef Walter , Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:27:48 -0500: >> * Forget this password after for an amount of time: [X ] minutes >> * Forget this password after idle for an amount of time. > > Note that the two "minutes" fragments mentioned above would definitely > req

Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets

2010-09-08 Thread Petr Kovar
Hi! Stef Walter , Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:27:48 -0500: (...) > Perhaps text like this would work, although (as you pointed out) it's > far less usable: > > * Lock this keyring after an amount of time: [X ] minutes > * Lock this keyring after idle for an amount of time: > > And in other prompts:

Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets

2010-09-08 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi Stef! > Perhaps this whole dialog needs to be redesigned? We would appreciate > any usability advice for this dialog. I guess so, two problems that I see write away: * The sentence in your screenshot is "Lock the keyring after 1 minutes" which is wrong because minutes is plural * Sharing a spi

Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets

2010-09-08 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:27:48PM -0500, Stef Walter wrote: > On 2010-09-07 11:37, Calum Benson wrote: > > > > On 2 Sep 2010, at 22:57, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: > > > >> Imagine a language that requires text both before and after the > >> position where the widget is supposed to show up. Example

Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets (was: String changes in gnome-keyring)

2010-09-07 Thread Calum Benson
On 2 Sep 2010, at 22:57, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: > Imagine a language that requires text both before and after the position > where the widget is supposed to show up. Example to demonstrate the > issue I'm referring to (in English): "Forget this password after > [widget-goes-here] of idle time"

Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets

2010-09-04 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Wouter Bolsterlee wrote on 02/09/10 22:57: > > Op zaterdag 28-08-2010 om 20:40 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Stef > Walter: >> >> The following strings were added: >> "Forget this password if idle for" >> "Forget this password after" >> "Forget this password when I log out" >... > Imagine a languag

Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets (was: String changes in gnome-keyring)

2010-09-04 Thread Petr Kovar
Hi! "Johannes Schmid" , Fri, 3 Sep 2010 10:03:02 +0200 (CEST): (...) > >>> The following strings were added: > >>> "Forget this password if idle for" > >>> "Forget this password after" > >>> "Forget this password when I log out" > > So this could be (for example): > "Idle time before password i

Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets (was: String changes in gnome-keyring)

2010-09-03 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! I think this is a complicated problem from the UI side. Usually you want to place the widgets in a horizontal and vertical order and as such you don't want to split the sentence into two labels and one input field: | label1 | input1 | longer label 2 | input2 | super long label

Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets (was: String changes in gnome-keyring)

2010-09-02 Thread John Barstow
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: > Op zaterdag 28-08-2010 om 20:40 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Stef > Walter: >> The following strings were added: >> "Forget this password if idle for" >> "Forget this password after" >> "Forget this password when I log out" > > I'm not su

Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets (was: String changes in gnome-keyring)

2010-09-02 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
Op donderdag 02-09-2010 om 23:57 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Wouter Bolsterlee: > This sounds like an interesting issue that might apply to multiple > applications. Thoughts and feedback are welcome! Fwiw, if this really poses a problem for certain languages (not sure about that though), some st

Construction sentences with embedded widgets (was: String changes in gnome-keyring)

2010-09-02 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
Op zaterdag 28-08-2010 om 20:40 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Stef Walter: > The following strings were added: > "Forget this password if idle for" > "Forget this password after" > "Forget this password when I log out" I'm not sure strings like this work for any language. It's quite clear that the