Re: [Usability] Usability loss of modern versions of GNOME

2013-12-18 Thread Calum Benson
perused and discussed, but until then I'd certainly encourage anyone with a strong interest in the design and usability of GNOME to seek out and participate in those channels. -- CALUM BENSONInteraction Designer +353 1 803 3807 Systems Experience

Re: [Usability] Updating broken links on wiki

2013-11-18 Thread Calum Benson
g/heuristic-evaluation>. The How To section is also on that page, but doesn't have its own URL any more. Thanks, Calum. -- CALUM BENSONInteraction Designer +353 1 803 3807 Systems Experience Design http://blogs.oracle.com/calum

Re: [Usability] Updating broken links on wiki

2013-11-18 Thread Calum Benson
g/heuristic-evaluation>. The How To section is also on that page, but doesn't have its own URL any more. Thanks, Calum. -- CALUM BENSONInteraction Designer +353 1 803 3807 Systems Experience Design http://blogs.oracle.com/calum

Re: [Usability] Important suggestion

2012-12-03 Thread Calum Benson
ication you can email me back (st...@live.com) > > Bye, > Zeerak > ___ > usability mailing list > usability@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability -- CALUM BENSONInteraction Designer +353 1 803 3807

Re: [Usability] Desktop management. - Discussions topics proposal.

2012-02-09 Thread Calum Benson
to help out. Regards, Calum. [1] http://live.gnome.org/Design/HIG/ -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop & Applications http://blogs.oracle.com/calum +353 1 803 3807 Any opinions are person

Re: [Usability] Making combo boxes more keyboard friendly

2012-01-03 Thread Calum Benson
This behaviour was actually recommended in one of the many gtk keynav bug reports I filed back in 2001: <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53579> Tis a little disappointing that it still hasn't been fixed over a decade later, especially as (or perhaps because) the bug wa

Re: [Usability] Usability

2011-11-22 Thread Calum Benson
e days, though, so that would probably be the best place to corner them and ask what plans they might have for 3.4 :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.oracle.com/calu

Re: [Usability] Annoying hot spot location

2011-11-22 Thread Calum Benson
nome.org mailing list instead, where more of the gnome-shell designers and developers hang out. Regards, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.oracle.com/calum +353 1 819 977

Re: [Usability] Background Wallpapers

2011-07-04 Thread Calum Benson
/art.gnome.org/backgrounds>. I don't think it's currently possible to upload there yourself, though... you'll probably have to enlist the assistance of somebody on the gnome-themes-list mailing list, or on the #gnome-art IRC channel on irc.gnome.org. Cheeri, Calum. -- C

Re: [Usability] local menu usability

2011-04-27 Thread Calum Benson
t's where people are playing around with some different menu ideas at the moment. Feel free to add your ideas there. Regards, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [Usability] HIG 3 Labels

2011-04-27 Thread Calum Benson
IG 3 yet), but a "control panel" pattern is certainly one of the ones I'd like to see us to tackle early on. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [Usability] Touchscreen and gestures

2011-04-27 Thread Calum Benson
ly one reason to have that. Of course we'd like to minimise the number of things that you have to do differently for touch screens, but experience with other platforms suggests that sometimes you just have to do things a different way on different devices if you want the optimum user experi

Re: [Usability] Handling documents and files

2011-03-21 Thread Calum Benson
e a hidden one, and not very accessible, so we'd probably need something a bit more obvious too. Regards, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 97

Re: [Usability] State of the HIG?

2011-03-11 Thread Calum Benson
tart generating real content, I'm sure we'll be looking for more writers and reviewers. Thanks, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1

Re: [Usability] State of the HIG?

2011-03-11 Thread Calum Benson
try and pull them into something tangible that we can move forward on, but I'd want to at least run it past the other people who contributed to that discussion first, before distributing it any further. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporat

Re: [Usability] Yelp Bookmarks Dialog

2011-02-16 Thread Calum Benson
noying in a web browser to have to visit a particular website before you could remove any bookmark you'd set up for it. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blog

Re: [Usability] Plans for Usability Work at Boston Summit

2010-10-19 Thread Calum Benson
On 13 Oct 2010, at 04:51, Brian Cameron wrote: > Are many Usability people planning to attend? If so, what do people > think we could work on while there? FWIW, I won't be going... already had other commitments for that weekend. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interacti

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-10-15 Thread Calum Benson
x27; patterns may be revised, or become 'deprecated' or 'obsolete' as the GNOME look and feel evolves. Of course, none of that process is specific to GNOME, and with suitable tagging mechanisms and code samples, could just as well apply to a desktop-agnostic pattern library. Ch

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-10-13 Thread Calum Benson
"when the user needs to do that, use the widget like this" sort of way, rather than the way the HIG currently does it ("here's the XYZ widget, and here's ten different ways you can use it"). Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corpor

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-10-13 Thread Calum Benson
nable way to get things moving again and capture the next steps, but I've left it in Allan's hands just now to sort out the logistics :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-10-12 Thread Calum Benson
e 2.x HIG in place until 3.2 at the earliest. I've been tied up with other stuff for the past few weeks, but I'm hoping to turn my attention back to pattern/HIG stuff fairly imminently. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:

Re: [Usability] Tab Glow States

2010-09-28 Thread Calum Benson
see some concrete action on it if anybody wants to take it on: <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72101> Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-09-28 Thread Calum Benson
terns/>. It's > a quick read that could then lead to an interesting discussion. FWIW, UIE just did a short podcast on a similar topic, too -- worth a listen if you're interested: <http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2010/09/16/spoolcast-reusable-components-libraries-with-

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-09-15 Thread Calum Benson
when you Google for "UI pattern library" are just such things. Yahoo's is probably the closest to what Google might be using: <http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/> Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-09-15 Thread Calum Benson
amples that we'd envisaged.) <http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/HIG3> My worry would be that it would distract us from actually getting enough done in time for the GNOME side of it to be useful for GNOME 3.x, however, which is already a huge job given how little we've done so far

Re: [Usability] HIG v3 Update

2010-08-10 Thread Calum Benson
the > pointer...(to only name a few) Yes, the accessibility team will be involved as much as possible, as they were with the current HIG. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team ht

Re: [Usability] sound-juicer

2010-08-05 Thread Calum Benson
>> to comment on this bug ;) > > I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I've commented anyway. ;) Sounds like we need to hurry up and write that "Media Transport Controls" UI Pattern :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation I

Re: [Usability] Cheap Open Source Morae Alternative

2010-07-22 Thread Calum Benson
ncy tools won't magically make that happen -- we just need to JFDI and share the results :) Once a critical mass of people are doing that, the requirements for tools will probably fall out a lot more naturally anyway... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Cor

Re: [Usability] Usability Plans for GUADEC

2010-07-19 Thread Calum Benson
and the pattern template that we're planning to use, all of which you can find there. We also need to decide exactly what format the library itself will take -- wiki, custom website, Mallard doc? -- but I'm not sure that's necessarily something we could or should decide at the work

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] GNOME Main Menu and the Distribution Logo

2010-06-21 Thread Calum Benson
ontrol) because it adds little or nothing to the user experience, so save it for an About dialog", but that probably wouldn't be too popular with distro marketing types :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@ora

Re: [Usability] HIG proposal: make TreeView selection trigger radio item selection

2010-06-08 Thread Calum Benson
dd it to the list. (Although it would be better if it 'just worked', of course-- have you considered filing an enhancement in bugzilla for GtkTreeView?) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation, Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Sol

Re: [Usability] Sticky Keys

2010-05-31 Thread Calum Benson
sn't give you any more information either. Adding a brief description to that, or linking to an appropriate section of online help, is probably a reasonable enhancement request. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation, Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@oracle

Re: [Usability] Deja Dup UI Review

2010-05-17 Thread Calum Benson
end up being a mixture of both techniques anyway -- even if you're doing a strictly-heuristic review, it's hard to completely detach yourself from an intended user's perspective unless you share literally none of their domain knowledge. Cheeri, Calum. [1] <http://www.useit

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-14 Thread Calum Benson
-devel-l...@gnome.org. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation, Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and

Re: [Usability] Mockup Software

2010-05-14 Thread Calum Benson
On 14 May 2010, at 12:46, Calum Benson wrote: > > On 14 May 2010, at 12:29, Michael Terry wrote: > >> Do you all have a favorite Mockup/GUI Prototyping/Wireframe tool? I'd >> like Free, but am OK with free. > > A couple of reasonable free ones: > >

Re: [Usability] Mockup Software

2010-05-14 Thread Calum Benson
ns.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8487/> Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation, Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessari

Re: [Usability] User Experience Advocates

2010-05-14 Thread Calum Benson
ects asking for our assistance next time. Maybe :) > One other thought - how does this intercept with some of the ideas at > OpenUsability.org? I haven't looked over there for a while, but it's certainly worth investigating whether we could leverage what they're doing,

Re: [Usability] User Experience Advocates

2010-05-14 Thread Calum Benson
more formal than that at Sun, with a documented review cycle and sign-off process prior to a major release, but I'm not sure we'd necessarily need to go that far...) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation, Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@oracl

Re: [Usability] User Experience Advocates

2010-05-13 Thread Calum Benson
the position > of "User Experience Manager" or some nicer name. AIUI Allan's suggestion is nothing to do with Launchpad or Ubuntu (even though the discussion happened at UDS); it would be a GNOME-wide initiative. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracl

Re: [Usability] Zoom Controls

2010-04-29 Thread Calum Benson
gt; printed on paper. For a webpage, it's just undefined. Well, presumably it's defined as something like 'using the font sizes defined in my preferences, and the image sizes defined by the web page'. But I agree that '100%' probably isn't the best way to represe

Re: [Usability] Zoom Controls

2010-04-21 Thread Calum Benson
27;s zoom slider works, with a couple of 'magnetic' points along the way for 'fit width' and 'fit to window'. Where the bounds are large, having the slider behave in some sort of exponential fashion might also be an option, although that would probably need

Re: [Usability] Deja Dup UI Review

2010-04-21 Thread Calum Benson
ME docs guys will tell you that the verb is "to back up", not "to backup"...) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation, Ireland mailto:calum.benson at oracle.com Solaris Desktop Group http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353

Re: [Usability] How to make GNOME better for Netbooks?

2010-04-20 Thread Calum Benson
uess our docs writers might prefer to keep it that way. But it's certainly worth discussing with them. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation, Ireland mailto:calum.benson at oracle.com Solaris Desktop Group http://blogs.sun.com/calum

Re: [Usability] How to make GNOME better for Netbooks?

2010-04-12 Thread Calum Benson
But by providing useful and knowledgable feedback when the time comes, people stand a better chance of being invited to join in future if and when new blood is required...) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation, Ireland mailto:calum.benson at oracle.com S

Re: [Usability] How to make GNOME better for Netbooks?

2010-03-24 Thread Calum Benson
the patterns for similar tasks on different devices all together in the same place. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are p

Re: [Usability] How to make GNOME better for Netbooks?

2010-03-24 Thread Calum Benson
just getting started. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun

Re: [Usability] GtkNotebook scrolling

2010-03-12 Thread Calum Benson
through tabs? In most cases, people can see which tab they need to visit, so it is much quicker for them to click that tab directly. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com

[Usability] Single click (was Re:GTK+ at the UX Hackfest)

2010-03-05 Thread Calum Benson
ues to consider, a single click mode for the whole desktop really needs to be designed from the toolkit up. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum

Re: [Usability] HIG: Small patch to "Progress windows" section

2010-03-02 Thread Calum Benson
ng”. (As with other window titles, do not end progress window >> titles with an ellipsis.)" > > Attached. Have just submitted a slightly-modified version of this patch (attached), which improves the tagging, updates the "What's New" section, and bumps the

Re: [Usability] Single-click mouse mode?

2010-02-24 Thread Calum Benson
On 24 Feb 2010, at 13:27, Calum Benson wrote: > > On 22 Feb 2010, at 20:42, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> I am now moving to Gnome from KDE. In KDE I have configured >> single-click mode, in this mode there is no concept of a double click. >> I see that Nautilus can be

Re: [Usability] Single-click mouse mode?

2010-02-24 Thread Calum Benson
: <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358731> Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not n

Re: [Usability] When does the hackfest start?

2010-02-22 Thread Calum Benson
Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Micros

Re: [Usability] London GNOME Beers - 26th Feb (+ a11y folks)

2010-02-18 Thread Calum Benson
ge. Will be weird going back to the Cheshire Cheese... used to be a regular haunt when I worked for Reuters 15+ years ago, haven't been back since! Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris

Re: [Usability] Hackfest social activities

2010-02-16 Thread Calum Benson
get a group of 25 into one capsule: <http://www.londoneye.com/VisitorInformation/GroupVisits/Default.aspx>... although we currently have 26 people signed up to attend, but maybe one of the locals wouldn't want to bother :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer

[Usability] [Hackfest] Accommodation

2010-01-29 Thread Calum Benson
I've added a column to the list of hackfest attendees where people can indicate where they're staying, if they wish: <http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/London2010> (FWIW, I'll likely be staying at the Premier Inn). Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interac

Re: [Usability] Fwd: FLOSS and usability workshop at CHI 2010

2010-01-25 Thread Calum Benson
On 18 Jan 2010, at 15:31, Calum Benson wrote: > > On 18 Jan 2010, at 10:43, Charline wrote: > >> Calum Benson wrote: >>> I'm just writing up the Q4 Usability team report for Stormy, and wondering >>> if anybody submitted a paper for this that I could m

Re: [Usability] On Ctrl+tab

2010-01-22 Thread Calum Benson
, but...if per your point Apple-Has-The-Power, then they > would have made Firefox change to not conflict with their UI. But that did > not happen, so either A) there was no conflict or B) Apple-Hasn't-The-Power. But most likely C), Apple has no interest in how well Firefox wo

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-18 Thread Calum Benson
On 18 Jan 2010, at 21:47, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:33 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: >> >> We could (and probably should) do that. Although personally, when I >> get to this level of prototyping fidelity, I like to add a little >> basic interacti

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-18 Thread Calum Benson
interaction as well, which dedicated prototyping tools tend to offer, but Inkscape probably can't. So I'm not sure it's something I'd use myself. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolar

Re: [Usability] Fwd: FLOSS and usability workshop at CHI 2010

2010-01-18 Thread Calum Benson
On 18 Jan 2010, at 10:43, Charline wrote: > Calum Benson wrote: >> I'm just writing up the Q4 Usability team report for Stormy, and wondering >> if anybody submitted a paper for this that I could mention? (I'd hoped to, >> but didn't quite get around to

Re: [Usability] Usability Hackfest Social Activities

2010-01-17 Thread Calum Benson
On 15 Jan 2010, at 14:36, Calum Benson wrote: > > On 14 Jan 2010, at 10:58, Allan Day wrote: > >> I can also organise drinks and meals for the evenings. Which evenings do >> people want to have meals organised for? Monday and Friday seem like a >> good bet. Any

Re: [Usability] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-15 Thread Calum Benson
o do a lot of the things I'd normally fire up less-open-source-friendly tools to sketch with. I'll be keeping it around! Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.

Re: [Usability] GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest

2010-01-15 Thread Calum Benson
rg/UsabilityProject/London2010/GoalsAndAgenda> I'm assuming that we'll probably want to split up into at least two groups for at least part of the time, so we can work on the things we're most interested in. Never having been to a hackfest before, I have no idea if this is what nor

Re: [Usability] Usability Hackfest Social Activities

2010-01-15 Thread Calum Benson
r [2] event? I like the sound of that :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not

Re: [Usability] On Ctrl+tab

2010-01-15 Thread Calum Benson
es have the keynav you describe. I was talking about (for example) the Universal Access preferences, which has four "proper" tabs (Seeing, Hearing, Keyboard, and Mouse & Trackpad). Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben.

Re: [Usability] On Ctrl+tab

2010-01-14 Thread Calum Benson
next table (when Tab moves to the next cell)". Dialog-level tabs, as found in many of Apple's system preference windows, do not have any direct keynav AFAIK. You just have to Tab through the dialog until the tab control gets focus, then use the arrow keys+Space to switch to a different

Re: [Usability] Fwd: FLOSS and usability workshop at CHI 2010

2010-01-11 Thread Calum Benson
gn, USA) > Michael Terry (University of Waterloo, Canada) > > > Paula Bach > Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Research Fellow > Graduate School of Library and Information Science > University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign > http://cscl.ist.psu.edu/public/users/pbach/index.h

Re: [Usability] Alt-Key should invoke Menu Bar

2009-12-18 Thread Calum Benson
can add any rationale that isn't already given there, feel free to do so... since there have been no comments on the report since it was opened in 2005, I guess nobody else is missing this feature very much. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland

Re: [Usability] UI review as well as code review (r+/r-)

2009-12-17 Thread Calum Benson
s the way we really wanted to: by having a centralized pool of usability people who could act as 'consultants' to individual projects.) > I think this is needed because the HIG, while helpful, is quite brief That's a first -- most people complain it's too big :) Cheeri, Calum.

[Usability] Apologies for spam

2009-12-08 Thread Calum Benson
Apologies to anyone who may have received an unwanted email via the list earlier today... I unintentionally let it through. Must try harder... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http

Re: [Usability] Reaching Users

2009-12-08 Thread Calum Benson
ng system to make it worth the effort of learning two similar-but-different systems just to keep them separate. It's certainly something worth talking about, though. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.com

Re: [Usability] Status bar hbox spacing values

2009-11-24 Thread Calum Benson
But we really need to see the options in action to give a reasonable opinion. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comGNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are p

Re: [Usability] Strange title bar in GNOME 2.28

2009-10-23 Thread Calum Benson
hat you're seeing, but I'm pretty sure none of it is intentional. (Which window manager is running: metacity, clutter or mutter? What themes are you using?) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpen

Re: [Usability] [Fwd: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...]

2009-10-16 Thread Calum Benson
fo/marketing-list -End of Embedded Message- ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpe

Re: [Usability] group management (on a massive scale)

2009-10-15 Thread Calum Benson
ations, which often have to deal with the sort of tasks and scalability you're talking about. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 97

Re: [Usability] Nautilus List View as Default

2009-10-13 Thread Calum Benson
ight not be all that useful on its own.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those

Re: [Usability] Ideas for Usability Hackfest

2009-10-12 Thread Calum Benson
frames of animation is often all it takes to replace half a dozen paragraphs of descriptive text. (The downside, of course, is that it's not so good if you want to print out a particular pattern for reference...) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Micro

Re: [Usability] Boston Summit

2009-10-08 Thread Calum Benson
which need dealing with so I'll be giving this a miss. FWIW, I won't be around for this one either. Maybe our first job should be to invent a good way to do virtual hackfests :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum

Re: [Usability] Requesting a right-click root menu for GNOME 3

2009-10-08 Thread Calum Benson
which will, one would hope, have been somewhat optimized for that device anyway). Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions ar

Re: [Usability] Requesting a right-click root menu for GNOME 3

2009-10-01 Thread Calum Benson
fashion, and with a level of discoverability that will make them available as and when the user's experience and confidence begins to grow. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team h

Re: [Usability] Ideas for Usability Hackfest

2009-10-01 Thread Calum Benson
then it isn't accepted for inclusion in GNOME, but can still be hosted on GNOMEs servers. I think it's very important for us to show that we want to tackle the consistency and usability in a formal manner from now on. === End of summary Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM B

Re: [Usability] logging out from keyboard / logout UX

2009-09-29 Thread Calum Benson
f thing before, but I don't recall off-hand why they've never made it into the stable release. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum

Re: [Usability] Gnome's biggest failure. By far. Stone-cold evil.

2009-08-21 Thread Calum Benson
't afflict GNOME 3.x. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily

Re: [Usability] An interesting video

2009-08-21 Thread Calum Benson
feeds. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of S

Re: [Usability] GNOME Command line interface

2009-08-13 Thread Calum Benson
ually... the only CLI command you usually need for doing that sort of thing is 'gnome-open', regardless of filetype/URI. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun

Re: [Usability] Tab Shortcut behavior

2009-08-03 Thread Calum Benson
On 31 Jul 2009, at 18:46, Allan Day wrote: Calum Benson wrote: One option would be to implement the stop-with-beep behaviour only when accessibility is turned on, and just wrap around when it is turned off. Another would be to always have the stop-with-beep behaviour, but allow it to be

[Usability] ux.gnome.org - user experience community site - was GNOME and non-linux platforms

2009-07-29 Thread Calum Benson
ne. Any thoughts, flames, rants? BR, K ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-l...@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.s

Re: [Usability] Tab Shortcut behavior

2009-07-27 Thread Calum Benson
bout the current behaviour. But whatever we do, it would be good to do it consistently (which probably means patching various gtk+ widgets as well as some applications that do their own thing), and with input from the accessibility team. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engine

[Usability] Draft of usability team update Q2 '09

2009-07-24 Thread Calum Benson
average user would encounter on their first day of using a brand new installation of Ubuntu: <https://launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts> Thanks, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://bl

Re: [Usability] New menubars Idea -- still considered or not?

2009-07-21 Thread Calum Benson
into the ribbons feature of Microsoft Office 2007 and subsequent MS apps, for example, which targets a similar sort of area to your proposal... <http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/pages/table-of-contents.aspx> Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems I

Re: [Usability] Gtk+ Font Dialog improvements

2009-07-21 Thread Calum Benson
tion. With a slider, you can easily increase/decrease all the different font sizes in the selection by the same amount, which can be very useful indeed. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

2009-06-12 Thread Calum Benson
ey weren't :) Safari 4 final release moves the tabs back below the toolbar. (Personally, I think they made the right choice-- with the beta layout, I lost count of the number of times I dragged the window when I was just trying to move a tab.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Eng

Re: [Usability] capitalization question for gnu solfege

2009-06-04 Thread Calum Benson
t opens.) dump-3, is the following correct? * window manager frame: change to "Solfege - Fourths and Fifths" * change heading to "Identify the Interval" * change the buttons to "New Interval" and "Give Up" Yes, that would be correct. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALU

Re: [Usability] HIG: Fixing the sort arrow direction guideline

2009-05-18 Thread Calum Benson
' is sorted alphabetically, then the unchecked group, but the user doesn't normally have direct control over that...) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum

Re: [Usability] HIG: Fixing the sort arrow direction guideline

2009-05-18 Thread Calum Benson
id they looked at the list itself for confirmation of the sort order, not the arrow. But if it closes a bug, I'm happy to fix it the next time we're updating the HIG. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.com

Re: [Usability] Usability study for GNOME on netbooks?

2009-04-23 Thread Calum Benson
oud services. How easy is it to do that? Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not ne

Re: [Usability] Usability at Gran Canaria?

2009-04-23 Thread Calum Benson
nce. The schedule hasn't been announced yet, but I'd be surprised if there's nothing usability-related at least around the 3.0 work. It looks like there's going to be loads of time for BOFs as well this year, so you could always arrange one of those yourself :) Cheeri, Calu

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-21 Thread Calum Benson
On 19 Apr 2009, at 18:54, Tim McConnell wrote: Hi Anton, I forgot one of the obvious questions as a suggestion. How long have you been using Linux? And what about those of us who use GNOME, but don't use Linux...? :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsy

Re: [Usability] New Menubars

2009-04-15 Thread Calum Benson
s you type. If you select a menu item from the list of results, you are shown where in the menu hierarchy the command lives. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRTcEJqcbBw> (skip to 1'30" to see this feature) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun

Re: [Usability] New Menubars

2009-04-15 Thread Calum Benson
where under <http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard> would be good places, depending on the actual content. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum

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