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

2010-03-01 Thread Allan Day
> > This patch makes small changes to the HIG's "Progress windows" section. > > > > * New: "A progress window should always appear as an independent > > window in a window list. If progress of a task makes a window > > temporarily unusable, do not present a modal dialog-like progress > > window in

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

2010-03-01 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 08:51 +, Allan Day wrote: > > > This patch makes small changes to the HIG's "Progress windows" section. > > > > > > * New: "A progress window should always appear as an independent > > > window in a window list. If progress of a task makes a window > > > temporarily unusa

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

2010-03-01 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 21:46 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 17:13 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > This patch makes small changes to the HIG's "Progress windows" section. > > Should patches be proposed and discussed on this list, or on > bugzilla.gnome.org, or is either OK?

[Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-01 Thread Bastien Nocera
Heya, We had a GNOME Usability hackfest last week in London, and a couple of TODO items, and questions cropped up which I thought I would share. For all those tasks, if resources are scarce to get the work done, I think adding those as ideas for the upcoming GSoC 2010 would be good, once technica

Re: [Usability] Usability internship with GNOME

2010-03-01 Thread Brian Cameron
Jan: Within the last weeks, me and Jan-Christoph Borchardt student joined the list because we are both interested in usability and want to push open source further. That's great! Maybe there is a strong interest by other young and motivated students at universities who would like improve th

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-01 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 16:44 +0100, Piñeiro wrote: > In the gtk side, I don't know much about the XSettings, but I suppose > that you are talking more general, and XSetting will manage all the > gtk modules to be loaded (engines, and so on). So XSettings would have > the lists of modules instead of

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-01 Thread Piñeiro
From: Bastien Nocera CCing gnome-accessibility list, as probably I will forgot several things. > - a11y instant-on (if not instant-off) > a11y is enabled in applications when the XSettings mention that the GTK+ > modules should be loaded. We could make GTK+ programs instant-apply the > XSettings

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-01 Thread Piñeiro
From: Cosimo Cecchi > On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 16:44 +0100, Piñeiro wrote: > >> In the gtk side, I don't know much about the XSettings, but I suppose >> that you are talking more general, and XSetting will manage all the >> gtk modules to be loaded (engines, and so on). So XSettings would have >> t

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Bolle
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 14:57 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Widgets > [...] > - Others? This might be off topic, depending amongst others what is still considered a widget, and I'm not sure what's the correct terminology for this, but the issue discussed in bug 411787 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/sh

Re: [Usability] Removal of Interface tab

2010-03-01 Thread anthony
I'have just seen this problem of removing icons, GNOME have not to* impose their choices* for menus and toolbar without icons. Especially if they remove the interface tab that allow people to restore icons in menus and toolbar. I already thought that removing icons by default was a very bad idea,