[Usability] Usability and I

2008-11-05 Thread Florian Ludwig
Hi there everyone, its my first post here so I dont got a recognized "name" here (nor anywhere else i guess, but that's not the point). As someone noted before everyone starts as an anonymous - but not completely anonymous, so: My real name is - as written in the From-Header - Flor

[Usability] usability on campus

2008-11-05 Thread Florian Ludwig
cal university nor what they do but I'll figure that out. greetings Florian Ludwig [0] http://groups.google.com/group/labyrinth-devel/browse_thread/thread/8ef72e435ca23f5d signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Us

Re: [Usability] New Sound Preferences and Volume Control

2008-11-28 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 23:24 +1100, Andy Owen wrote: > This is mostly related, but kind of not related. I think that instead of > (or at least as well as) having a list of all applications with audio > happening, so you can modify their volume, there should be a volume > slider as part of the windo

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

2009-02-10 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 12:16 +, Allan Day wrote: > > > - Use Ctrl+{ / (Open brace) Ctrl+} (Close brace) to move between > tabs > > Oh? Why not Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown? I would prefer Ctrl+PgUp/Down and also wonder the advantages of { / } besides that they are probably not always taken as shortcut as

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

2009-02-10 Thread Florian Ludwig
Hey, On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 17:12 +, Allan Day wrote: > Any comments or suggestions? I not read it completely yet but so far I miss a comparison to the window list. The window list is the same just "a level higher" in the structure. I think there are similarities, similar problems, for example

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

2009-02-10 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 13:02 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 12:16 +, Allan Day wrote about showing the > tab bar while only one tab is open: > > Disadvantages: makes tab functionality less discoverable. Means that > > it > > isn't possible to introduce additional function

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

2009-02-12 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 17:12 +, Allan Day wrote: > Any comments or suggestions? Right Mouse Button Context Menu "All" (epiphany, gedit, nautilus, gnome-terminal) focus the tab you right-clicked ... am I the only one who feels not comfortable with that? (firefox and "the window list" does not

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

2009-02-14 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 14:55 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:24:36PM +, Allan Day wrote: > > Eek! Never noticed that before! Agreed - most uncomfortable. Right > mouse > > button should == context menu. Nothing else. > > Disagree. If it isn't used, then I don't see the p

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2009-02-28 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 12:04 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: > > I migrated Andreas' python script to a C application hosted at > http://github.com/herzi/pongo/tree/master ; I happily accept patches > for > documentation and anonymous-filter... > > Regards, > Sven I tried cpongo and it worked fine.

Re: [Usability] playlist manager in nautilus

2009-03-14 Thread Florian Ludwig
cuss the problem might be the one of the rhythmbox people. Florian Ludwig [0] http://mail.gnome.org/ 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] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 18:33 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > I get it. But where I can build that survey? I don't know a web site > or smth I can use to achieve this goal. You all tell me to make all > the questions and put them together but nobody tells me how to do it > so I have no other choise

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Florian Ludwig
In general I think the majority of questions should be multiple choice questions or "insert number" and not free-text. Its much easier to evaluate later on and you get some numbers. But provide some way to comment at the end of the survey, its frustrating if you have to choose an answer that does

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-17 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 23:11 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > Here's the first draft: > http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cFE1dHJkUkhFakVoNlZJVEFKNXRJZFE6MA.. > What is your job status? Does the term "employed" include "self-employed"? (I dont know) But anyway... does it matter if the u

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-18 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 10:10 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > > On Friday 17 April 2009 05:05:46 pm Florian Ludwig wrote: > > Does the term "employed" include "self-employed"? (I dont > know) But > > anyway... does it ma

Re: [Usability] Gnome format User Interface and Gnome Hig

2009-04-23 Thread Florian Ludwig
ormat" should be the most right one imho. I think its ok to have "format" the default button as it doesn't cause any data loss. The confirmation alert of cause should default to cancel. -- Florian Ludwig 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] Gnome 3.0 - General Sociological Research- email address?

2009-04-24 Thread Florian Ludwig
ut maybe there should be? I would threat these information as confidential as they contain name and email address and the interviewee might not expect having them public available to everyone. -- Florian Ludwig signature.asc Description: This is a di

Re: [Usability] Gnome 3.0 - General Sociological Research- email address?

2009-04-24 Thread Florian Ludwig
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 23:02 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: > В 21:03 +0200 на 24.04.2009 (пт), Florian Ludwig написа: > > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 12:57 -0600, Tim McConnell wrote: > > > > Note: You'll need to sign into Google with this email address. > > > &qu

Re: [Usability] Help

2009-06-11 Thread Florian Ludwig
y, especially: http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Articles/WhyHackersShouldCare http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/ reading this mailing list is also a good starting point. Thats everything I can recommend you to do. -- Florian Ludwig signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [Usability] Help

2009-06-12 Thread Florian Ludwig
st of the documentation is done in docbook xml and the webversions are generated, not sure if there is help needed on the generation site. Writing, reviewing documentation or translating are other places where help is needed. Same here, please look at the mailing lists. Hope this helps you, best

Re: [Usability] GnomeShell - Recent Documents

2009-06-22 Thread Florian Ludwig
gurations Files and so on. Checkout "zeitgeist" - it got similar features and I think will gain importance within GNOME in the future. -- Florian Ludwig signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Usability ma

Re: [Usability] Gtk+ Font Dialog improvements

2009-07-20 Thread Florian Ludwig
ze the preview window before trying to change the font as the resizing is not as good as Henrique's original. What do you think? -- Florian Ludwig gtkfontdialog.tar.bz2 Description: application/bzip-compressed-tar signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___

Re: [Usability] Focus changes while dragging icons

2009-07-30 Thread Florian Ludwig
er OS (MacOSX and MS/Windows) when you drag a file the focus > stay unchanged. At least on windows you can also drag onto a window list entry. This does not work on GNOME, maybe for technically reasons. This possibility reduces the need of "managing" windows while drag'n'drop

Re: [Usability] Tab Shortcut behavior

2009-07-30 Thread Florian Ludwig
s not always are precise enough this might be good though inconsistent. -- Florian Ludwig 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] GNOME Command line interface

2009-08-07 Thread Florian Ludwig
file or URL as an argument will open it with the preferred application. just like gnome-open, got an alias "o" for gnome-open as its less to type :) -- Florian Ludwig 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] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: Zoom Controls]]

2010-04-23 Thread Florian Ludwig
as well. It is useful if you look at photos or if you're doing any kind of design. As it doesn't clutter the interface that much I belief you hurt some people by removing it but help little to the rest. [0] Does it actually reference to the size of the thumbnail? Its a guess, &quo

Re: [Usability] Mockup Software

2010-05-14 Thread Florian Ludwig
/mortenjust.com/2010/04/19/a-wireframe-kit-for-google-drawings/ -- Florian Ludwig ___ usability mailing list usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

[Usability] sound-juicer

2010-07-25 Thread Florian Ludwig
Hi everyone, could some of the usability experts here have a look on this gnome bug report [0] about changing the sound-juicer gui? I already commented my thoughts but I wouldn't call myself the expert someone asked for on irc to comment on this bug ;) Btw, Looking at other programs I noticed: T

Re: [Usability] Will Nautilus ever be able to set recursive file permissions?

2011-11-30 Thread Florian Ludwig
Hi, On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 21:18 -0700, Jim March wrote: > Folks, > > I'm on Mint12 and have confirmed that Nautilus is still broken. In > order to switch ownership or other permissions of, for example, an > entire USB drive recursively (all directories top to bottom) I still > have to drop to a

Re: [Usability] Narrowing specifically on dual-chip video cards etc

2011-11-30 Thread Florian Ludwig
Hi Teunis, I didn't read your whole mail, just: On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 10:19 -0800, Teunis Peters wrote: > In the presence of a dual-video-chip system, secondary chip should > only be enabled when high-performance graphics is necessary. (not by > default, and not anywhere in the shell) > OS provi