Re: [Usability] Okay - Usability Problems

2007-09-17 Thread Dylan McCall
with something else, with the change being that the "something else" runs the file manager with a standard command line arg., instead of building the dialog itself, and somehow gets an output. It would be a big change, but I think it would solve about half of the problems people have with GNOM

Re: [Usability] Out of Disk Space?

2007-09-17 Thread Dylan McCall
cleaned up routinely, keeping the drive usage consistently minimal, which would be a helpful and quiet method causing minimal obstruction. Bye, -Dylan McCall On 9/17/07, Jacob Beauregard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was reading this article, and stumbled upon this section: > > "No

Re: [Usability] Out of Disk Space?

2007-09-17 Thread Dylan McCall
y revision involving both, involved somewhere. An interesting thought, Andre! Bye, -Dylan McCall On 9/17/07, André Lelis Gonçalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think the major problem of the TrashCan is that if you delete multiple > files with the same name, it wont make a

Re: [Usability] Desktop Clutter

2007-10-26 Thread Dylan McCall
Nautilus' window inside an expander box. Gnome-panel springs to mind as a nice base for such a project. In particular, I remember reading a vision for it to group applets in user-defined sections rather than at completely arbitrary coordinates set by the user. -Dylan McCall On 10/26/07, Shaun Mc

Re: [Usability] bad dialog, need advice

2007-10-29 Thread Dylan McCall
Is it really necessary to have an Apply /and/ a Crop button? All that tool does is crop things, so it can be easily assumed that, when pressing Apply, one wants that selection to be cropped. That's what I was expecting, anyway... Bye, -Dylan McCall On 10/29/07, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak &l

[Usability] Are the gnome-terminal's Profiles really necessary?

2007-12-05 Thread Dylan McCall
addition to gconf, along with a clever panel applet to swap profiles on the fly. Bye, -Dylan McCall ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Are the gnome-terminal's Profiles really necessary?

2007-12-05 Thread Dylan McCall
Another thought that suits both needs would be to rearrange the workflow; to reduce the prominence of Profiles to those who don't need them while keeping them there for those who do. Instead of having to choose a profile and edit it, the Preferences could be directly accessible via the menu (as usu

Re: [Usability] File open dialog double/single click issue

2008-01-22 Thread Dylan McCall
ile path so far). Listing it under Places makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't mind it being a completely different widget, either. This widget is not *meant* to behave like Nautilus, as it is not for managing files so much as simply finding them quickly. Bye, -Dylan McCall On Jan 22, 2008 6

[Usability] Subdued Unlock button is confusing users

2008-03-10 Thread Dylan McCall
ion here in making it more visible, with Clearlooks giving it a very visible extra glow. Of course, some lunatic distros are not using the Clearlooks engine, so that wouldn't be the be-all end-all for discoverability, but I think it could help. Bye, -Dylan McCall signature.asc Description: T

Re: [Usability] A New Start Menu Design, which resemble windows

2008-10-21 Thread Dylan McCall
m, which makes sense to me, but perhaps the words are not as specific in your translation. That would certainly be worth looking into! Bye, -Dylan McCall ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

[Usability] The sticky and slow keys dialogs

2009-03-14 Thread Dylan McCall
Hi, I recently filed a fix in Ubuntu's bug tracker, regarding gnome-settings-daemon's keyboard accessibility plugin, which handles the hotkeys to select different accessibility features (eg: Press Shift 5 times). I got it to fall back to its own nice dialog box in the event that the notification d

Re: [Usability] Gnome's biggest failure. By far. Stone-cold evil.

2009-08-20 Thread Dylan McCall
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Dokuro wrote: > I don't know if there is a widget that holds launcher icons on a > gnome's (top/bottom) bar, if there is the solution relies in using it, > that way all the launchers would not be moved from their position on a > resize (since the hole container is t

Re: [Usability] New Paradigm of Computing for GNOME 3.0

2010-02-12 Thread Dylan McCall
dow coming out of the icon). I think we can do better :P So, err, basically I'm doing something along these lines. If someone wants to beat me to it, I would love to know so I can help out! :) Most of the trickery here will be in how the surrounding applications use it, after all. Bye, Dylan McCall signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] Deja Dup UI Review

2010-05-23 Thread Dylan McCall
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Michael Terry wrote: > On 21 May 2010 09:39, Allan Day wrote: >> Where are we at with this, Michael? > > I like a lot of the ideas in the analysis & mockups.  In particular, I > think a more welcoming first run wizard would be good, and I like your > mockups for t

Re: [Usability] I have a problem

2011-05-28 Thread Dylan McCall
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Benjamin Otte wrote: > … > * There's button(s) that say  ( Notes | Edit ) > How are these buttons different from notebooks? Is it just visually > different or is it a completely different interaction? Because from > the interaction described it looks like a noteboo