Re: [Usability] GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest

2010-01-13 Thread Charline
Hello Brian, What we will be presenting at the Hackfest. The context: I am about to start an experimental co-design research on "developer-centered communication" of usability results. What it means concretely is that, following some usability research on Empathy with end users, I will be ob

Re: [Usability] On Ctrl+tab

2010-01-13 Thread Jud Craft
I hate to force open an old topic, but this recently came up as an Ubuntu launchpad bug for their Paper Cuts project. [1] The essence of the problem is that while Ctrl-Tab is reserved by GTK for keyboard navigation, it has also been claimed by many popular applications on Windows, Mac, and Li

Re: [Usability] On Ctrl+tab

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Hi Jud, > > Thanks for bringing this up. > > How about: those who care come up with a replacement combination for focus > navigation in GTK+, and a patch to implement ctrl+tab to change tabs, and > submit that for upstream inclusion and see

Re: [Usability] On Ctrl+tab

2010-01-13 Thread Jud Craft
On 1/13/10 6:25 AM, Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Hi Jud, Thanks for bringing this up. How about: those who care come up with a replacement combination for focus navigation in GTK+, and a patch to implement ctrl+tab to change tabs, and submit that fo

Re: [Usability] GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest

2010-01-13 Thread Thomas Wood
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 10:35 +, Charline wrote: > > I would appreciate it if everybody who is planning on attending the > > GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest could speak up and share their ideas of > what > > we should focus on while together, and what things each person plans > to > > bring to the eve

Re: [Usability] On Ctrl+tab

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Jud Craft wrote: > Not sure what you mean.  I'm running Firefox and Thunderbird on OS X, and > they use Ctrl-Tab.  Cmd-Tab is reserved for application switching on OS X. ah, thanks for the reminder. oh well, another incentive to push that bug towards a fix lost ..

Re: [Usability] GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest

2010-01-13 Thread Allan Day
> I'd like to create a usability assessment of this new approach and also > look at the design of the wider range of capplets to see what could be > improved. Can you clarify what you mean by 'usability assessment'? Are you referring to heuristic analysis or to actual user testing? More generall

Re: [Usability] GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest

2010-01-13 Thread Thomas Wood
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 14:38 +, Allan Day wrote: > Can you clarify what you mean by 'usability assessment'? Are you > referring to heuristic analysis or to actual user testing? I guess I was really just hoping for a useful feedback and prototyping session, so we can uncover any weakness in the

Re: [Usability] GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest

2010-01-13 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 14:15 +, Thomas Wood wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 10:35 +, Charline wrote: > > > I would appreciate it if everybody who is planning on attending the > > > GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest could speak up and share their ideas of > > what > > > we should focus on while toge

Re: [Usability] GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest

2010-01-13 Thread Brian Cameron
I really like all the discussion that we are having to prepare for the hackfest. However, I think it would be good if we could capture some of the topics we'd like to discuss to the Agenda. I just added an empty "Agenda" section to the Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/London201

[Usability] Looking for some data on who we usability practitioners are - please contribute

2010-01-13 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi everyone, I'm looking to gather some non-identifiable data (i.e. aggregate data) on who we usability practitioners are. The purpose is to help me develop some personas for use in a little side project that has come about on the Gnome usability mailing list [1] - an attempt to create a usa