Anzan Hoshin Roshi wrote:
> The "Shell" for GNOME 3 and it's overlay would be absolutely dreadful
> for me, and I think for some if not most users. I simply won't do the
> navigation of the cursor around and pointing and clicking, and having
> this huge menu thing taking over the desktop would make
Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 19:16 +0200, Felipe Erias Morandeira wrote:
> [...]
>> Wouldn't it be enough to have configurable key bindings to change the
>> desktop, open a new one, etc...?
>
> How would you discover them? The point of the ri
Hi, folks,
this is an interesting passage regarding activity-based computing from
the book "The invisible computer", by Donald A. Norman:
> "Make it possible to have all the material needed for an
> activity ready at hand, available with little or no mental
> overhead. Tools, documents, and infor
Hi,
this is just a quick idea that I just sketched. In a nutshell:
- have text by the buttons explaining what they do; backups have a huge
potential for messing up the user's files, so adding the right
explanations here and there can be reassuring
- use a combo box for selecting between profil
I wonder if it would be possible to get interaction designers involved
*before* the application has been written.
To cite Alan Cooper:
"Many people have the mistaken assumption that what interaction
designers do, and what needs to be done, is user-interface design.
Interface design is certainly p
On 21/05/10 18:37, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Felipe Erias Morandeira
> wrote:
>> I wonder if it would be possible to get interaction designers involved
>> *before* the application has been written.
>
> Most of open source software is in t
On 21/05/10 20:22, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 14:13 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:to you.
>>
>> 2. Make mockups and flowcharts and whatever else you would
>> do to sketch out the user interaction.
>>
>> 3. Make some noise and convince developers this is worth
>> implementing.
>
> It
Hi,
today I was playing a fullscreen game (Openarena) when suddenly a dialog
popped up saying:
- gnome settings daemon -
Do you want to deactivate Sticky Keys?
You just pressed two keys at once, or pressed the Shift key 5 times in a
row. This turns off the Sticky Keys feature, which affects the
On 29/05/10 11:58, Felipe Erias Morandeira wrote:
> My proposed solution is that this dialog should simply disappear because
> this "feature" is actually annoying and useless.
To clarify: I am not suggesting that StickyKeys should be dropped.
We should improve the usability of
On 16/09/10 09:34, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> Looking at what synchronous and asynchronous usually mean regarding
> communication, I consider this choice of term troublesome. What exactly
> is synchronous about a notification that can be left sitting there all
> day?
The problem that I see with havin
On 05/05/11 13:37, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> On a technological position that's true. You can replace all
> functions by gestures. But I'm not convinced that people do really
> know what kind of gesture is related to a specific task. [...] Does
> anyone knows a scientific analysis on that topic?
Ja
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