Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2009-02-28 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 12:04 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: > > I migrated Andreas' python script to a C application hosted at > http://github.com/herzi/pongo/tree/master ; I happily accept patches > for > documentation and anonymous-filter... > > Regards, > Sven I tried cpongo and it worked fine.

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Allan Day wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 16:39 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Andreas Nilsson wrote: Calum Benson wrote: I'd also really like to see more of the simple usability work done by developers. Of course it would require some hand-holding/tutorials/whatever from experie

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2009-02-12 Thread Martin Soto
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 12:04 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: ... > I migrated Andreas' python script to a C application hosted at > http://github.com/herzi/pongo/tree/master ; I happily accept patches for > documentation and anonymous-filter... What was wrong with the Python approach? M. S. _

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2009-02-12 Thread Sven Herzberg
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 12.02.2009, 10:10 + schrieb Allan Day: > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 16:39 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > > Calum Benson wrote: > > >> I'd also really like to see more of the simple usability work done by > > >> developers. > > >> > > >> Of cours

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2009-02-12 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 16:39 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > Calum Benson wrote: > >> I'd also really like to see more of the simple usability work done by > >> developers. > >> > >> Of course it would require some hand-holding/tutorials/whatever from > >> experienced us

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2009-02-11 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Andreas Nilsson wrote: Calum Benson wrote: I'd also really like to see more of the simple usability work done by developers. Of course it would require some hand-holding/tutorials/whatever from experienced usability folks to start with, but really, it shouldn't be that hard to get everyone i

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2008-10-30 Thread Calum Benson
On 30 Oct 2008, at 14:10, Kirk Bridger wrote: Glade could probably have been rather more helpful in the meantime, too, by shielding designers from any non-optimal gtk+ defaults. I don't know how much time I've wasted over the years left- or right- aligning text labels that always default

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2008-10-30 Thread Kirk Bridger
Some great thoughts Calum. Just a few supporting ideas and thoughts below. Calum Benson wrote: The main reason, though, was that they were beginning to perpetuate the misconception that usability is something you just do at the end of a cycle to add some lipstick to the pig. We vowed to e

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2008-10-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:48:36AM +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > I totally regret that I never had the time or patience to learn how to > program properly, but I hereby volunteer to do any graphics design > needed (icons/website/whatever) for such a app. To each his own IMO, I am very happy

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2008-10-28 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Calum Benson wrote: I'd also really like to see more of the simple usability work done by developers. Of course it would require some hand-holding/tutorials/whatever from experienced usability folks to start with, but really, it shouldn't be that hard to get everyone involved, testing early a

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2008-10-28 Thread Calum Benson
Long rambling comments below :) On 27 Oct 2008, at 18:56, Stormy Peters wrote: In the first few cycles of GNOME 2, there were UI reviews. They looked at new dialogs, gave feedback, kept a good state in GNOME. But no longer have people that have time to do that. There were another couple

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2008-10-27 Thread Stormy Peters
Usability team, We recently had a GNOME Advisory Board meeting around usability. My apologies for not notifying you in advance to get your input on the agenda. (I'm still learning how to use the numerous GNOME mailing lists!) We have monthly conference calls with the GNOME Advisory Board - if ther