Re: [Usability] How to make GNOME better for Netbooks?

2010-04-13 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 18:27, Calum Benson wrote: > > There's not a great deal to contribute to just yet, although you're welcome > to comment on our rough kickoff notes at < > http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/HIG/ThreeZero>. > i would like to remind about the importance of structure. giv

Re: [Usability] How to make GNOME better for Netbooks?

2010-04-19 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 14:51, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 18:27, Calum Benson wrote: > >> >> There's not a great deal to contribute to just yet, although you're >> welcome to comment on our rough kickoff notes at < >> http://li

[Usability] Contact List

2010-04-21 Thread Frederik Nnaji
do we have any goals in the air concerning Empathy's improvement with the contact list? will it have drag and drop? will grouping work, batch also? will we be able to dock it to an edge? can we add it as a sidebarmode in nautilus for jabber filexfer, along with tree and places?? i would also like

Re: [Usability] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: Zoom Controls]]

2010-04-23 Thread Frederik Nnaji
Hilarious. A grammy must be on it's way ;) -- Sent from my Palm Pre On 23.04.2010 23:41, Allan Day wrote: > I wonder how usable this is considered as a subject line: > Re: [Usability] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: Zoom Controls]] > > So who exactly forwarded a reply to a forwa

Re: [Usability] Deja Dup UI Review

2010-04-24 Thread Frederik Nnaji
my favourite feature on Deja Dup: file and folder revisioning system ( Return to previous version) this feature is incredibly awesome, since it actually gives external harddrives a real purpose as backup media. i would strongly appreciate any emphasis on this feature within deja dup, so that one co

Re: [Usability] Deja Dup UI Review

2010-04-25 Thread Frederik Nnaji
Semantically, "encrypt" means a one way street. Only decryption can resolve the protection. Once a program offers to encrypt your data, it suggests nothing less. Browsers inform about an encrypted connection, that's a completely different thing and would be totally misinforming, if formulated as

Re: [Usability] Deja Dup UI Review

2010-05-03 Thread Frederik Nnaji
the context menu entry "revert to previous version" should only appear on previously synchronized folders... if that hasn't been previously mentioned already ___ usability mailing list usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability

Re: [Usability] User Experience Advocates

2010-05-13 Thread Frederik Nnaji
Hi Allan ;) On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 14:11, Allan Day wrote: > What do people think of this idea? How could we make it happen? > i think the maintainer of project "foo" on launchpad could appoint someone he knows to help them in this manner, by assigning him/her to the position of "User Experien

Re: [Usability] User Experience Advocates

2010-05-13 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 16:55, Calum Benson wrote: > AIUI Allan's suggestion is nothing to do with Launchpad or Ubuntu (even > though the discussion happened at UDS); it would be a GNOME-wide initiative. > > Cheeri, > Calum. > of course, launchpad is only an easily imaginable example implementat

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-15 Thread Frederik Nnaji
has anyone tried simply enabling single clicks in Nautilus? for a starters, that sufficed for me. i hope i'm not stepping on anybody's face if i mention that we are just having an exceptionally lengthy discussion [1] in a "downstream" usability related ML on exactly this topic.. the essence i dra

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-17 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 19:40, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 17 May 2010 17:35, DARKGuy . wrote: > > Again I say, create the feature, make it optional, and keep everybody > happy. > > Of course the idea is to be optional. Many people are happy and > familiar with double-click. > that's because it is

Re: [Usability] Mockup Software

2010-05-30 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 15:42, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > I mostly use dotted paper [1] or Inkscape [2]. > > 1. http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/squaredots/ > 2.http://inkscape.org/ > - Andreas > > > On 05/14/2010 01:29 PM, Michael Terry wrote: > >> Do you all have a favorite Mockup/GUI Prototypi

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] GNOME Main Menu and the Distribution Logo

2010-06-21 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On 2010-06-21, David Siegel wrote: > In Unity, the Ubuntu button toggles the Dash. > > In GNOME Shell, we could do as David Hamm suggests and "weld" an Ubuntu logo > there for consistency with UNE. We could even replace the word "Activities" > with the Ubuntu button. > > David the current single

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] GNOME Main Menu and the Distribution Logo

2010-06-22 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On 2010-06-22, Calum Benson wrote: > > On 21 Jun 2010, at 15:51, Jarlath Reidy wrote: >> >> 4) I like the number four, but I can't think of and idea to put here. > > That would probably be "don't show a distro logo on the desktop at all > (except maybe in the default background where it's under th