Re: [Usability] Interacting with open folders

2005-02-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
ys added next to the title - have drag working from that icon - make the icons in the drop-down use the proper icons depending on the theme and get all the patches accepted :) --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Re: Re : Find bar variants

2005-02-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
> - Close button at end > > - Next, Previous buttons, but with Down/Up icons (Epiphany and Evince > > use Right/Left icons, and Yelp uses Right/Lefty arrows) > > Interesting idea to use Up and Down but I read from right to left so > I dont think you can claim it is wrong t

Re: [Usability] Define new Keyboard Shortcuts

2005-02-17 Thread Bastien Nocera
questions regarding this feature for the ACME bit of the control center). --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Video/Image Thumbnails

2005-03-07 Thread Bastien Nocera
strip > borders on video thumbnails? You're using nautilus-media's thumbnailer, not totem's which has the super-duper "film-holes" that everybody loves. --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Video/Image Thumbnails

2005-03-07 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 17:31 -0400, Steven Garrity wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > You're using nautilus-media's thumbnailer, not totem's which has the > > super-duper "film-holes" that everybody loves. > > Gotcha - which is the default in Gnome? n

Re: [Usability] Additions to nautilus-cd-burner's interface

2005-05-13 Thread Bastien Nocera
s: > > 1. A "burn" button > 2. An amount of disk space used of total > 3. Type of disk > > I have filed a bug about this, but it is wontfix until we can decide > on something, so that a patch can be implemented. This is a nautilus problem, not a problem with nau

Re: [Usability] changing view with key strokes.

2005-07-21 Thread Bastien Nocera
endation or > even > better add this to the Shortcut-Prefs. The keyboard shortcut preferences are not for changing application- specific shortcuts. This culd probably be made into a stock menu item, like the Copy/Cut/Paste though. --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lucas h

Re: [Usability] changing view with key strokes.

2005-07-21 Thread Bastien Nocera
for some things (and look for the already opened ones, there's one about using "non-standard" zoom keys). --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] changing view with key strokes.

2005-07-21 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 00:11 +0200, Samuel Abels wrote: > On Do, 2005-07-21 at 22:41 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Is this a usability report for Totem? I don't think I asked for one... > > I do not think that my comments were out of place in this discussion, > but I am

Re: [Usability] new feature: dragging file folder folder opens it ?

2005-08-05 Thread Bastien Nocera
ree mode? Or is it planed already? It's called spring folders and is patented by Apple. Read the archives on lists.gnome.org, it has some insight as to why we can't add this feature to nautilus. Cheers --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "At last England have appointed a

Re: [Usability] (no subject)

2005-09-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
s X.cue | shnsplit -n '' -o flac Y.ape > > > > Does this mean the Gnome desktop has failed? ;-) > > Ordinary use? By virtue of even being on this list I do not think any of > us count as ordinary users anymore. Maurizio was being sarcastic... --- Bastien Noce

Re: [Usability] The filechooser

2005-10-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
cise, first time you press '/' key opens dialog, just like > Ctrl-L does. Now, we are just missing the same behaviour for "~' :) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153213 Even has a patch. --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Media Controls

2005-10-29 Thread Bastien Nocera
ontrol" (Rhythmbox), > > "Edit" (Totem) or "View"? > > * Is "Shuffle" a toggle (Rhythmbox, Totem) or an action (Muine)? > > Would be really great to make more of these items consistent. > (Making sure GTK has the

Re: [Usability] Media Controls

2005-10-29 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 23:27 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:15:34 +0100 > > From: Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: Tim Steenvoorde

Re: [Usability] Escape Closing Dialog

2005-12-13 Thread Bastien Nocera
the keyboard. Why is this? Only the ones with a "Cancel" stock button can be dismissed using Escape. --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Richard's a vicious old tart, and he quite obviously had the wherewithal to play withnail. -- Bruce Robinson ___

Re: [Usability] Escape Closing Dialog

2005-12-13 Thread Bastien Nocera
o be random. The only thing I said is that it wasn't random. If you're not happy, you could always file a bug (or at least search for one), instead of branding it as stupid. --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And I know another oneL 'Stikk en reddik opp I rumba mi'

Re: [Usability] gnome-terminal shortcuts

2005-12-27 Thread Bastien Nocera
r apps That works if you use the Copy and Paste menu items, or corresponding keyboard shortcuts. So what is it that the OS X terminal has that the GNOME one doesn't? --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] gnome-terminal shortcuts

2005-12-27 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 16:54 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - use the 'open' command to launch an app or > > document as if I double-clicked it > > You can use "gnome-open" for that. > > A

Re: [Usability] Menu item in SJ

2006-02-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
est I can come up with. Wouldn't people expect to have it enter editing mode in s-j rather than go to a web page? -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Feature request

2006-02-19 Thread Bastien Nocera
board > (couse of technical reasons) layout i use at that moment. Is it able to > add "layout indicator" as it is done in windows? You should really be filing a feature request against gnome-screensaver in the GNOME bugzilla. This makes a lot of sense for accessibility purpose

Re: [Usability] Menu item in SJ

2006-02-19 Thread Bastien Nocera
7;m strongly in favor ofditching the > current CDDB preferences dialog. It's still used for gnome-cd. Until we have a replacement CD player integrated in the Desktop (right now we still have Sound-juicer, which has that functionality more for double-checking that you're ripping the

Re: [Usability] Use circles in password field

2006-02-21 Thread Bastien Nocera
nion before asking the release-team for approval. > > Does the HIG address this? Isn't that already what GDM uses nowadays? --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If men don't wear skirts after this movie, we have failed. -- Brad Pitt (on Troy) ___

Re: [Usability] Use circles in password field

2006-02-21 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:55 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote: > Hey, > > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Isn't that already what GDM uses nowadays? > > (Here comes a potshot ;)) > As you might expect, this is configurable in gdm.conf. Yay! :) My guess is that you should

Re: [Usability] A few questions about mouse pointers

2006-03-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
ll showing, yes. > * what's the correct name for the hyperlink pointer? > is it that or 'hand pointer'? Yeah. -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Re: Closing windows with doubleclick

2006-03-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
quot; sites in the history. May I abuse and also ask for full history for that site when the window/tab is reopened? > > I *hate* accidentally hitting Ctrl-W when typing into a web form. > > ...Epiphany warns when closing a tab (or window with a tab) that contains > unsubmitted for

Re: [Usability] Fingerprint reader

2006-06-05 Thread Bastien Nocera
for more than a year now. A combination of pam_keyring, and the pam modules Sven mentioned should do: http://www.hekanetworks.com/index.php/publisher/articleview/frmArticleID/25/staticId/31/ -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Usability m

Re: [Usability] Real progress screen for file-roller (Gnome Archive Manager)

2006-09-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
ion. I'm sure that it would have a proper progress dialogue, if it weren't for the short-comings of the command-line utilities. -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

[Usability] Graphical selection of text subtitles in Totem

2007-01-05 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hello, and happy new year to all, Totem has the ability to load text subtitles automatically, currently loading the text subtitle file with a known suffix, and with the same name as the movie (ie. test.avi would try to load test.srt, or test.sub as subtitles). People have requested being able to

Re: [Usability] Control Center Appearance Capplet

2007-04-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
nce Windows" in the HIG. The HIG specifies that preference > windows should be instant apply, but does not specify a particular > layout to deal with this idiom. Looking at any other operating systems > where instant apply is often used (primarily Mac OS X), it seems that > mos

Re: [Usability] SoundJuicer "Submit Track Names" is unusable.

2007-05-08 Thread Bastien Nocera
to freedb. > > > > Freedb is a pile of steaming horseshit > that is all Agreed. And the musicbrainz process isn't that hard. I uploaded information for at least a dozen of CDs, and even though it gets a bit getting used to, the referencing and the responsibilities onto the submitte

Re: [Usability] SoundJuicer "Submit Track Names" is unusable.

2007-05-08 Thread Bastien Nocera
is allow to add disc IDs to an existing release (ie. a disc already present with a different ID on Musicbrainz) without going through the interface. I filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436913 about it. That would take care of most cases for end-users, although rare/incredibly new discs

Re: [Usability] About Me Applet

2007-06-12 Thread Bastien Nocera
im is to identify yourself (ie. your accounts) in Evolution-data-server. It can be used by Galago to say who you are for example. It's also used to set your "face" in the GDM face browser, your name in the system passwd database, and it could be used by Epiphany to auto-complete forms,

Re: [Usability] About Me Applet

2007-06-12 Thread Bastien Nocera
one of them as 'me', which > opens up a few more options.) In MacOS X, some bits are in the address book, some others are in the users capplet, where one can change their own password, as well. -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Usability issue in Totem

2007-08-29 Thread Bastien Nocera
u/+source/totem/+bug/135609 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338390 -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] add link to nautilus burner somewhere in Applications menu

2008-01-27 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 13:59 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a long time linux user and for last two years I have been using > > mainly Gnome (was a KDE user before). > > > > I think that having nautilus burner only in "Places" menue isn't > > intuitive. Peop

Re: [Usability] suggestions to ameliorate the ergonomics of totem

2008-08-12 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 16:14 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 19:46 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > [...] > > > Displaying the current volume level all the > > time is just too much information. The volume level is either just > > right, or wrong. > > And when the music starte

Re: [Usability] Focus changes while dragging icons

2009-07-30 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 14:07 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Hi, > > In nautilus (and other applications) the focus of windows changes when > the user is dragging an icon (file) over it. This is quite annoying when > for example a bigger window suddenly hide a smaller one where you > precisely w

Re: [Usability] Hackfest social activities

2010-02-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 12:11 +, Calum Benson wrote: > On 11 Feb 2010, at 23:14, Allan Day wrote: > > > 4. An exciting trip! > > > > I've had a couple of ideas for trips to enlighten and inspire. The first > > is the London Design Museum [4]. The second is an exhibition called > > 'Decode: Digi

[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] Removal of Interface tab

2010-03-02 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:07 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > Is there still time to discuss the need for the Interface tab? It will > be gone in 2.30. > > Of course, it can be changed with gconf-editor, but I don't consider > that to be a good solution. The solution will be by 2.32 hopefully. The moc

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-02 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 17:38 +0100, Piñeiro wrote: > 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

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-02 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 21:11 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 14:57 +0000, 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&#

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-02 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 13:06 +0100, Filippo Argiolas wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Heya, > Hey, > > > Widgets > > --- > > > > Having often used widgets in GTK+ means that we reduce differences in > > appearanc

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-02 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 16:54 +0100, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: > 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

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-02 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:22 +0800, Li Yuan wrote: > Mathias made the patch > (http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=118981 ) to > make at-spi support XSettings. > > >From a11y side, gail and atk-bridge/atk-adaptor, as GTK+ modules, should > be able to be loaded at any time. If th

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-03 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 23:55 +0100, Filippo Argiolas wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 13:06 +0100, Filippo Argiolas wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > >> > Heya, > >>

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-03 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 15:48 +0800, Li Yuan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:27 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:22 +0800, Li Yuan wrote: > > > Mathias made the patch > > > (http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=118981 ) t

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-03 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 15:57 +0800, Li Yuan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:27 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > > What is missing for this to work? Can we remove the "you need to restart > > your session" from the a11y capplet in the control-center? &g

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-08 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 13:00 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: > Am Montag, den 01.03.2010, 14:57 + schrieb Bastien Nocera: > > Widgets > > --- > > > > Having often used widgets in GTK+ means that we reduce differences in > > appearance and behaviour between a

Re: [Usability] Google Summer of Code 2010 Call for Ideas

2010-03-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 18:34 -0800, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > > > Ruben: > > > > At the GNOME Usability Hackfest, it was discussed that there is a > > real need to develop some free software to help the GNOME Usability > > team better collabor

Re: [Usability] Zoom Controls

2010-04-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 21:46 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > > Coincidentally, yesterday I was trying to munge Federico's ideas into > > the UI Pattern Template I've been working on-- primarily to continue to > > exercise the template rather than suggest a concrete design for zoom > > controls, so I'm

Re: [Usability] Recognizing GNOME-compliant apps

2011-01-17 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 10:46 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote: > Hello, > > > Got this idea about starting an initiative to recognize apps that > comply with GNOME standards, which may or may not be limited to the > HIG. I'm not sure what else to consider. > > > The motivation behind is to pay homage to

Re: [Usability] gnome 3

2011-04-14 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 11:53 +0300, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > I think this discussion is more pertinent in the usability ML; I'm adding > that > in CC and to the Reply-to. > > On 04/14/2011 11:24 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > Today, I'm writing to you for the first time and it's about this

Re: [Usability] Designing for illiteracy – a mass market accessibility challenge

2011-04-19 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 22:42 +0300, Luc Pionchon wrote: > Hello, > > This short article raises awareness about user interfaces and > illiterate people. I read it with great interest and felt you might > be interested in too. It made me wonder about how much of GNOME is > usable when one can't rea

Re: [Usability] HIG 3 Labels

2011-05-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 09:39 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Michael Terry wrote: > > I noticed that the new control panels use a lot of right-aligned, > > no-colon labels. Is that the new recommendation? It's only for use in lists, where the label might otherwise clash with the value. See the Bluetooth

Re: [Usability] totem and external audio tracks

2012-04-02 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 14:29 +0400, Sun Web wrote: > The only thing that is needed for dumping mplayer is this feature. > External audio tracks is a must option for any video player nowadays. > But it can be extended to a degree that none of existing players can > do. I don't see that. You're the s

[Usability] New GTK+ widget, GtkSearchEntry

2012-06-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
Heya, The widget is in GTK+ master. Could we have some recommendations drawn up for more complicated uses, such as: - Evolution and Rhythmbox' use of popups on the left-handside to select the sources to filter (or go for the gnome-documents style drop-down) - Whether we should recommend "search" b

Re: [Usability] UI engineering: use a database of user data

2013-06-03 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 15:32 +0200, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: > Le 2013-06-03 07:48, Luc Pionchon a écrit : > > Having “real life” datasets help to see how the software scales in > > real environment. > > > > In the case of an Artist list, as an example, you may have 50 artists > > in your own music lib

Re: [Usability] UI engineering: use a database of user data

2013-06-03 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 17:08 +0200, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: > Le 2013-06-03 16:38, Bastien Nocera a écrit : > > On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 15:32 +0200, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: > >> Le 2013-06-03 07:48, Luc Pionchon a écrit : > >> > Having “real life” datasets help to

Re: [Usability] Usability suggestion - help to complete command in alt + f2

2016-02-03 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 01:22 +0100, Jorge Chaves wrote: > Hi again, > > I wanted to add just one more thing, and with this I think that I'm > done > with the GNOME suggestions. > > When you use alt+f2 in GNOME in Debian 8, there isn't a suggestion of > what you are > typing to help you to complete