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

2010-01-18 Thread Charline
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 it :/) Yes, I have. Not sure abou the title yet. What would you need? Sorry for the lat

Re: [Usability] On Ctrl+tab

2010-01-18 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
Op zaterdag 16-01-2010 om 13:17 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Jud Craft: > >> If GNOME used Ctrl-Shift-X for Copy, we'd all blame GNOME for being > >> pointlessly arbitrary. > > > > It doesn't, so I don't get the point your making here. > > It is an analogy to GNOME using Ctrl+Alt (or was it

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

2010-01-18 Thread Lasse Havelund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've had a chance to play with Pencil for a bit now, and it seems like a great prototyping application. Definitely a great idea. - -- ..-. Lasse Havelund /( o \Official Ubuntu Member '| __ ` ||lhavel...@ubuntu.com ||| ||| -'

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

2010-01-18 Thread Hiran Venugopalan
2010/1/17 Máirín Duffy > > What if we built a library of sketchy widgets as an Inkscape SVG and made > it widely available? (maybe available in the app itself the way the > SVG-based help files open from the help menu?) > > Thats what I do now, keep all inside an image and use when I need it, Why

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 it :/) >> > Yes, I have. Not sure abou

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

2010-01-18 Thread Calum Benson
On 18 Jan 2010, at 12:56, Hiran Venugopalan wrote: > 2010/1/17 Máirín Duffy >> >> What if we built a library of sketchy widgets as an Inkscape SVG and made >> it widely available? (maybe available in the app itself the way the >> SVG-based help files open from the help menu?) >> >> > Thats wh

Re: [Usability] On Ctrl+tab

2010-01-18 Thread Jud Craft
On 1/18/10 7:22 AM, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: Let me make it clear that I'm not against mapping Ctrl+Tab to tab cycling as long as the current shortcuts are still available *and* under the condition that a proper substitute for moving widget focus is found. Cool. So it is the apps that crea

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

2010-01-18 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:33 +, Calum Benson wrote: > On 18 Jan 2010, at 12:56, Hiran Venugopalan wrote: > > > 2010/1/17 Máirín Duffy > >> > >> What if we built a library of sketchy widgets as an Inkscape SVG and made > >> it widely available? (maybe available in the app itself the way the >

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 +, 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 interaction as well, which dedicated pro