Re: [Usability] Interacting with open folders

2005-02-10 Thread Kirk Bridger
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 18:42 +, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 17:16 +0100, John Keller wrote: > > > (And, as Steven said in a parent message, the > > > "File" menu would make sense for the current-folder options.) > > > > Perhaps it would be more intuitive to label that menu "

Re: [Usability] gedit's Save A Copy

2005-02-21 Thread Kirk Bridger
Save A Copy == Save A Copy As A New File The former is more succinct, the latter is more clear. We need new terms perhaps? Or do we compromise, and if so on what? I agree Export has it's own meaning, but frankly Save A Copy kinda scares me a bit too, as it is rather ambiguous in today's termino

Re: [Usability] Progress Bars

2005-04-05 Thread Kirk Bridger
I'm thinking of at least one situation where a single progress bar would not be sufficient - when the user needs to know at which point along the way something failed during a series of actions. For example, in Sound-Juicer, while ripping a series of songs, I want to be able to see the progress of

Re: [Usability] Progress Bars

2005-04-06 Thread Kirk Bridger
er" status, and can suffer with a stiff upper lip if nobody else thinks my point is valid in any other situations. On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 09:41 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 21:21 -0700, Kirk Bridger wrote: > > I'm thinking of at least one situation wher

Re: [Usability] Docu of Keybindings of Startmenu

2005-05-01 Thread Kirk Bridger
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 22:39 +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On May 01 at 21:47, Leif spoke: > > > In gnome you would use the menu key (I think, as I am not in gnome, so I > > can't test.), or it might be one of the windows keys (called super or so > > by xev) > > What is the "meny key"? > I ha

Re: Fwd: [Usability] Technical language in applet menus

2005-05-07 Thread Kirk Bridger
I'm still not clear on when a user should ever have to "restart a screensaver". That makes no real sense for a desktop. You either have the screensaver enabled, or you don't. So perhaps having the daemon automatically started when the user selects a screensaver, and then stopped when they choose

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

2005-05-12 Thread Kirk Bridger
I'm using Gnome 2.8, but I had some comments on this too. Right now, I find that the interface for burning lacks a lot of details, such as those listed by Corey. How much space is left on my disk? Is the disk even detected? How much space do the current files need? Right now, I click burn and

Re: Screenshot dialog not needed? (Was: Re: [Usability] screenshot & recording desktop video)

2005-06-15 Thread Kirk Bridger
What about a shutter-like effect over the entire screen? A quick snap and the dialogue appears with the results? I think it's important to give feedback to the user for this operation, and I also think the dialogue is excellent. I was very pleased when I first had to interact with it. Much bett

Re: [Usability] Re: Screenshots as videos

2005-07-13 Thread Kirk Bridger
If we do not like the expansion of the term 'Take a Screenshot' to include the additional functionality/task of recording the desktop (which I agree with), then perhaps we can simply expand the task launcher's name. 'Capture Desktop' would encapsulate both screenshots and recordings, for example.

Re: [Usability] The ``Replace File'' dialog should display the two file sizes, times, etc.

2005-07-30 Thread Kirk Bridger
I like this one as well, but I had a few more comments I hope contribute to the discussion. An expander, I think, is supposed to hide information that the user may or may not want. However in your mockup - what exactly would a user be able to do without the expander expanded? It feels like prett

Re: [Usability] Request for User Interface Review of Inkscape

2005-09-05 Thread Kirk Bridger
Have the developers considered approaching OpenUsability.org? I know I've been watching the site waiting for Gnome projects to join so I can try to particpate that way. Kirk On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 15:02 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > If anyone is interested in doing a User Interface Review of Ink

Re: [Usability] Text wrapping in gedit

2005-10-02 Thread Kirk Bridger
Not to add to the flames, but I've founmd Gedit to be slow loading and cumbersome for that very reason. When I have a simple text file I need to quickly read, I don't want to wait 10-15 seconds for Gedit to launch. I've discovered Leafpad that exists to emulate notepad in Windows. Fast launch, n

Re: [Usability] New "Add to panel" dialog

2005-10-20 Thread Kirk Bridger
One of Calum's blog comments stuck with me, and I totally agree with it. He mentioned that figuring out what applets are already present on a toolbar can be tough, particularly for a new user. Even after using Gnome of over a year now I still have to guess what the names of my applets are when I'm

Re: [Usability] Merge Open/Save (was "Re: Save Icon")

2006-02-08 Thread Kirk Bridger
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: On 9 Feb, 2006, at 1:36 AM, Joachim Noreiko wrote: ... What about "save because there might be a power cut"? Or "save because I'm going to make a coffee and my cat might jump on the keyboard"? or just "save because I'm paranoid about crashes"? ... Those are exc

Re: [Usability] File Permission User Interface: Feedback Requested

2006-03-06 Thread Kirk Bridger
Christian Neumair wrote: Dear usability list, I'd appreciate if some of you could comment on the permissions user interface proposed under [1]. Thanks in advance! [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/view/cneumair/2006/03/06/0 ___ Usability mailin

Re: [Usability] Theme Instant Apply

2006-04-30 Thread Kirk Bridger
Thomas Wood wrote: Could anyone give me some advice on bug 149323 (HIG issues with Theme Preferences). The issue is that the theme manager often takes longer than one second to apply a theme, so therefore it should not be instant apply. Would it be acceptable to most people to change the them

Re: [Usability] Theme Instant Apply

2006-05-03 Thread Kirk Bridger
Thomas Wood wrote: Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: On May 2, 2006, at 3:29 AM, Sven Jaborek wrote: Am Sonntag, den 30.04.2006, 15:42 +0100 schrieb Thomas Wood: Could anyone give me some advice on bug 149323 (HIG issues with Theme Preferences). The issue is that the theme manager often takes l

Re: [Usability] Chabada's Suggestions

2006-06-24 Thread Kirk Bridger
His site seems down, but looking through Google's cache I have a comment: Renaming file extensions causes file type change: I don't like the way Windows uses file extensions to determine filetype. I think it is much more useful to have the system figure out what filetype it is. Windows ended up

Re: [Usability] Chabada's Suggestions

2006-06-26 Thread Kirk Bridger
I think it would be an interesting idea if it was lossless.  As soon as data can be lost in the translation I think it would be a mistake. But as Matthew pointed out, it is a rename function.  Might it make more sense to have a right-click option to convert a file to another filetype, a la Nau

Re: [Usability] Using Control-Esc and Windows keys to access the start menu

2006-08-20 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Lennart, Lennart Borgman wrote: I have seen such argumentation but I do not believe that could be applied to simple cases like this. Beeing able to use Ctrl-Esc or the windows keys to access the start menu is nearly as basic as beeing able to use the mouse to do it. I have not seen an

Re: [Usability] spatial desktop

2006-09-15 Thread Kirk Bridger
I always like to remember that in usability, a metaphor is a tool that can, frankly, be taken too far.  We need to be mindful of the fact that metaphors can reduce usability if applied incorrectly. I think limiting a user's ability to interact with their files in an intuitive manner because we

Re: [Usability] Dialogs and Maximize button

2006-09-21 Thread Kirk Bridger
One concern I'd have is that some of the app's contents will be covered by the dialogue and the user can't move it around to see what is below it.  Transparency is not a solution here as it just seems to mucky up the contents rather than display it usefully. Kirk brian muhumuza wrote: There

Re: [Usability] Filechooser and filename suffixes

2006-09-30 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Rob, Here are my thoughts. Abiword should be somewhat "intelligent" here but allow the user to override that intelligence if they choose to. By intelligent I mean it should append the correct suffix as specified in the combobox box whenever appropriate. It is not appropriate, for example, wh

Re: [Usability] An extended default applications dialog

2007-01-12 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Matt, This is an interesting idea, but I have two immediate concerns: 1 - We would be exposing some inner workings (mime types) to the users directly. This level of understanding isn't really required for most users. In Windows when I look at the file type dialogue and things to open them wi

Re: [Usability] File Dialog Add/Remove Places Mockup

2007-02-24 Thread Kirk Bridger
Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 01:58:16PM +0100, David Christian Berg wrote: The icon-buttons are about exactly that. Offering discoverability without wasting space. I guess this is just, where we disagree :) I don't think they are discover

Re: [Usability] User Shut Down damaged PC

2007-03-22 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Mark, Perhaps the problem is that the user environment offers all users the ability to shutdown, whereas you would rather be able to offer them only logout or switch user capabilities?  Perhaps suspend too?  The point being that it is a user-specific setting/limitation. Maybe the best opti

Re: [Usability] User Shut Down damaged PC

2007-03-29 Thread Kirk Bridger
Mark Knecht wrote: > > Assuming we have removed shutdown from the desktop environment then > the two ideas that do work in my mind are: > > > I had no intentions of suggesting we remove the shutdown command from the desktop environment. I had suggested that we could make its availability c

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

2007-05-08 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Rohan, I haven't heard Ross Burton yet in this discussion, but I have heard you make some presumptuous (and insulting) comments about his motivation and general demeanor that, in my dealings with him, do not bear out. It would be best if we can focus on the issue and not the personalities

Re: [Usability] Options, Check, Toggle, Exclusive

2007-05-14 Thread Kirk Bridger
I'm not clear on how the ribbon would behave - could the target be increased in size such that the user could click anywhere on the ribbon (and thus on any part of the radio button collection) and on mouse down the selection either move to the click location or if physically impossible (such as

Re: [Usability] Gnome HIG suggestion: search box clear buttons

2007-06-03 Thread Kirk Bridger
What is the intent of the user?  What are the goals or tasks here? In no particular order (as I see them): 1 - edit existing search text This should be done by simply pointing and clicking with the mouse so that the cursor appears within the existing text somewhere.  If the user wants to high

Re: [Usability] Gnome HIG suggestion: search box clear buttons

2007-06-04 Thread Kirk Bridger
I am hesitant to assume that most users connect the address bar of a web browser with the actual displayed document.  I wonder if most people just remember "Landing page addresses" and the rest is just noise as they navigate through the various subpages to get where they want to go. Flash site

Re: [Usability] 2 useful functions

2007-06-11 Thread Kirk Bridger
There is a partial solution available - the Gnome Art Manager (package name gnome-art).  Once installed you can download and use any themes from art.gnome.org.  Themes here meaning many things, including splash screens. Kirk Wolfgang Zwirchmayr wrote: sounds good too, but if i now use ubu

Re: [Usability] About Me Applet

2007-06-11 Thread Kirk Bridger
I think the Instant Messaging info could be used by IM clients to automatically setup accounts when installed.  I always hate having to setup an account more than once, simply because one application doesn't know anything about me. I wonder what other use cases there are - I'd spend some time

Re: [Usability] Gnome HIG suggestion: search box clear buttons

2007-06-15 Thread Kirk Bridger
It seems to me that this would be a bug with Evolution - why isn't the data being filtered by the filter properly? One could argue that it is because it is not filter as you type. Perhaps a bug should be filed to change that rather than come up with a complex colour/texture display solution?

Re: [Usability] Mousetweaks usability discussion

2007-10-31 Thread Kirk Bridger
In terms of the a11y tab and feature, I wouldn't tie it in as suggested on that page.  I may have it default to one setting or the other based on whether or not the a11y feature is enabled in Gnome, but not restrict it to using that setting.  Users may want to employ some or all of the mouse a1

Re: [Usability] Mousetweaks usability discussion

2007-11-01 Thread Kirk Bridger
My thoughts are does it matter what widget I'm interacting with when I see a cursor?  If I see a text-related cursor, it should either blink or not.  The mouse cursor here doesn't count obviously - is there another name for it than cursor to distinguish between the text and mouse cursor?  I don

Re: [Usability] Request for Totem usability review

2007-12-04 Thread Kirk Bridger
the YouTube search, if that's OK. Very exciting stuff coming in Totem! Kirk Philip Withnall wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 19:44 -0800, Kirk Bridger wrote: >> Hi Philip, >> >> Those screenshots would be great - I'd love to give feedback but don

Re: [Usability] selecting with shift, ctrl; using shift to select on desktop.

2008-01-03 Thread Kirk Bridger
I don't want to speak for Jacob, but I read this as basically a way of multi-selecting using hover to select. Current rubber banding (click and hold) allows you to multi-select only things that are arranging in a rectangular way, or within a rectangle boundary (the rubber band). Jacob's suggestio

Re: [Usability] Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard

2008-03-08 Thread Kirk Bridger
My guess is that this is simply a reflection of a common issue with keyboard accelerators: sometimes the menu has more than 1 word starting with the same letter. In this case, if 'P' went to programming, how would someone get to the top-level "Places" without using the cursor keys?  I'm sure P

Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy

2008-03-28 Thread Kirk Bridger
Another idea off the top of my head.  How about another Removable Media option that sets it to "Secure Mode"?  Then, if in secure mode and something is removed/ejected, Nautilus prompts the user if they want to shred or erase all traces of the data.  A simple yes/no, and only if in secure mode.

Re: [Usability] File operations dialog redesign

2008-04-28 Thread Kirk Bridger
The only use case I can think of (because I've experienced it) is using pause to prioritize specific copying.  If we have multiple things going over the wire, and suddenly I want one to be the only thing going, to make it get there as fast as possible, I'd pause the lower priority ones. Now ma

Re: [Usability] File operations dialog redesign

2008-05-02 Thread Kirk Bridger
ome kind of metaphor like stat in a medical sense, or courier shipping options (next day versus 3-5 business days), or some other mental model to make it clear what this is doing?  Just throwing early-morning ideas out there. Kirk Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Kirk Bridg

Re: [Usability] A file information preview system in Nautilus

2008-06-04 Thread Kirk Bridger
All valid points against the tooltip approach. Maybe we could put all this valuable file-related info in the sidebar, when the "Information" option is displayed? Right now I find that feature of the sidebar less than informative, and this seems like a natural kind of thing to display. Kirk

Re: [Usability] Category Management (i.e. Rhythmbox Music Player)

2008-06-14 Thread Kirk Bridger
There is obviously a lot of thought behind these comments, but I really am confused as to what the actual use case here is. What does the user want to do that searching doesn't accomplish? Sorry to appear so daft, but it feels like I would like to contribute but am just not grasping what the

Re: [Usability] Category Management (i.e. Rhythmbox Music Player)

2008-06-14 Thread Kirk Bridger
s. As a result, they are very different experiences. Here's a brief article that notes some differences. http://powazek.com/2005/01/000484.html What I'm trying to get at is that both are useful, but they don't have the same reasons for being useful (i.e. search capabilities do not

Re: [Usability] Category Management (i.e. Rhythmbox Music Player)

2008-06-16 Thread Kirk Bridger
Got it - thanks for the clarity. What about using a colour-scheme to "tag" tracks? Then you can start with a colour and browse around that colour, selecting tracks or artists as you go. Doesn't juk do this? The barrier there is just like any other tagging system - you have to tag your track

Re: [Usability] Creating links on desktop

2008-07-03 Thread Kirk Bridger
One other option is to middle click and drag the folder to the desktop. Dropping it this way will produce a menu, which includes the option to create a shortcut. Kirk Shaun McCance wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:02 +0530, My Own Linux wrote: I want to keep my file organized and want a

Re: [Usability] Notifying about expected things

2008-08-03 Thread Kirk Bridger
Perhaps the bubble could be replaced with a changed icon in the system tray, such as the update-manager icon? I think it is easy to find, easy to understand, and not intrusive when there are updates. I find bubbles to best be used when there is something the user needs to do in the immediate

Re: [Usability] Usability meeting minutes

2008-10-30 Thread Kirk Bridger
Some great thoughts Calum. Just a few supporting ideas and thoughts below. Calum Benson wrote: The main reason, though, was that they were beginning to perpetuate the misconception that usability is something you just do at the end of a cycle to add some lipstick to the pig. We vowed to e

[Usability] Gnome Shell update and personas - focus or distraction?

2008-11-11 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hey everyone, I've been mucking around with a page on personas after stormy's message (http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/Personas) and it brought up two good points. Yes I type notes to myself and come across new thoughts that way, but I digress. 1 - If we want to look at us

Re: [Usability] Gnome Shell update and personas - focus or distraction?

2008-11-12 Thread Kirk Bridger
It sounds like there's at least some interest in putting together something like personas - what feature set do we want to focus on. or put another way, what feature set seems to be the one the devs are really gunning for? The Gnome Shell? http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/10/22/implementing-the

Re: [Usability] Gnome Shell update and personas - focus or distraction?

2008-11-26 Thread Kirk Bridger
e could figure out who we should discuss/test with as they'd be great sources of info for the personas too. Frankly I'm still not clear on the tasks they're trying to build around. Thoughts and ideas? Kirk Kirk Bridger wrote: It sounds like there's at least some interest

[Usability] Feedback and information requested - GnomeShell personas

2008-11-27 Thread Kirk Bridger
r any info, ideas, suggestions, comments, or questions you may have! Kirk Bridger P.S. I've cc'd the usability mailing list here as I started this conversation on the list in a separate thread. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2008-November/msg00028.html _

Re: [Usability] New Sound Preferences and Volume Control

2008-12-03 Thread Kirk Bridger
This discussion is interesting, and it made me think of a question I don't know the answer to: Do users actually want to adjust volume for each application? I already find it annoying having to adjust volume system-wide now. Do I really want to have to adjust per window? Put another way, is

Re: [Usability] New Sound Preferences and Volume Control

2008-12-05 Thread Kirk Bridger
erested in solving. Now if we wanted to look at it from an accessibility point of view then there may be something interesting, but again we'd need to ask some users. Kirk Andy Owen wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 06:42 -0800, Kirk Bridger wrote: Put another way, isn't there some way we

Re: [Usability] New Sound Preferences and Volume Control

2008-12-07 Thread Kirk Bridger
The main volume control could also be changed to provide a few presets, or most commonly useful settings. Just throwing the idea out there. Kirk Diego Moya wrote: On 06/12/2008, *Kirk Bridger* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: I think we have a ba

Re: [Usability] Combo box in a status bar

2009-03-17 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Vadim, Here are my thoughts. 1 - is it important that the user know which setting is currently active? If so then having this dropdown always visible would be a good thing. If not, then it adds up to visual clutter. 2 - if the user doesn't need to know the current value of the setting,

[Usability] GnomeShell User Research Ideas

2009-04-09 Thread Kirk Bridger
I've been thinking more on GnomeShell, Gnome users, and how usable GnomeShell is going to be to them. My request for comments from the dev list on my persona ideas (1) was met with silence, so perhaps my ideas were not yet solid enough to be useful to anyone else. I'd like to take another tac

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research - Sociological Surveys

2009-04-19 Thread Kirk Bridger
Great idea! Just a few general suggestions for these kinds of things: 1 - if you're giving them a list of things and asking them to select one or more, it's usually a good idea to include an "Other - please specify" option, in case you didn't think of everything. 2 - a final question asking

Re: [Usability] Gnome Research on the Web

2009-05-17 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Anton, Wow, will take some time to go through it all. Just a question - for that CC license do you not need to indicate how people should provide attribution? The link you provided is a good summary, but shouldn't you state somewhere that you either don't want attribution, or your name or

Re: [Usability] Request for UI freeze break (Re: Icons in panel menu bar)

2009-08-31 Thread Kirk Bridger
From a usability standpoint, MPT's approach breaks from having visual consistency. Sure it follows the guidelines of only dynamic objects having icons, but it breaks visual consistency. So either move the non-dynamic items under a dynamic object so you can have visual consistency (reorganize

Re: [Usability] Requesting a right-click root menu for GNOME 3

2009-10-02 Thread Kirk Bridger
or discussion. If anyone has comments or questions about my presentation, I'd be happy to respond to them on or off list Kirk kbrid...@shaw.ca [1] http://thebside.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/Kirk-Bridger-Eliminating-The-Odd-submitted.odp Rick Spencer wrote: I agree with Stormy. It&

Re: [Usability] Open Source UX Tools

2009-11-15 Thread Kirk Bridger
There was a recent discussion on how to create an Open Source Usability Lab - makes for interesting reading. Here's part 2 (part 1 is linked inside it). I've also been watching Pongo

Re: [Usability] Cheap Open Source Morae Alternative

2009-12-15 Thread Kirk Bridger
I believe you've touched on the first to-do, and I don't agree that it is mockups. First we need to know what the tasks are going to be in the application. You've listed: - check audio is working - check video is working - check video runtime (current length) - start, pause, and stop recordi

Re: [Usability] Cheap Open Source Morae Alternative

2009-12-18 Thread Kirk Bridger
This discussion might be informed by looking at how some existing DVD authoring programs are laid out. Kino for example, DeVeDe - they all involve doing "things" that, together, become a workflow. They have projects so you can save your status at any time and come back to them without restart

[Usability] Looking for some data on who we usability practitioners are - please contribute

2010-01-13 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi everyone, I'm looking to gather some non-identifiable data (i.e. aggregate data) on who we usability practitioners are. The purpose is to help me develop some personas for use in a little side project that has come about on the Gnome usability mailing list [1] - an attempt to create a usa

Re: [Usability] Looking for some data on who we usability practitioners are - please contribute

2010-01-19 Thread Kirk Bridger
on we live with today ... I am uncertain is these two emails are getting through to the KDE mail list - could someone from the list confirm if it is or if it is not, so I can follow up if needed? Thanks, Kirk http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GCFPJ9L Kirk Bridger wrote: Hi everyone, I&#x

Re: [Usability] Looking for some data on who we usability practitioners are - please contribute

2010-02-01 Thread Kirk Bridger
kinds of surveys. I plan to manually compile the data and post it to the wiki. Let me know if you have any specific questions - and please do help direct additional people to the survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GCFPJ9L Kirk Máirín Duffy wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 23:43 -0800, Kirk B

Re: [Usability] Switching applications accross desktop

2010-02-02 Thread Kirk Bridger
I'm not sure what you need exactly. If by "desktops" you mean workspaces, then one of the reasons you'd use them is to separate several workflows or groups of tasks. So it makes sense not to Alt+Tab to windows on another workspace. What you may need is simply to use Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right to switch

[Usability] FLOSS Usability Testing Suite - persona work and status

2010-03-10 Thread Kirk Bridger
I've been working behind the scenes and have a rough draft of a first persona for the proposed usability testing suite project. I wanted to pause before moving ahead with the other 3 personas to make sure this is capturing the right data, and that they'll be useful for the team involved to und

Re: [Usability] FLOSS Usability Testing Suite - persona work and status

2010-03-12 Thread Kirk Bridger
Thanks for the thoughtful reply Charline! You've given me a lot of ideas and feedback - see below for some specific thoughts. What will these personas be used for? Right now, you have defined them by their professions/activities. Are you sure this is what will be most useful? I'm not su

Re: [Usability] FLOSS Usability Testing Suite - persona work and status

2010-03-14 Thread Kirk Bridger
ds, Allan On Mar 13, 2010 12:44 PM, "Kirk Bridger" <mailto:kbrid...@shaw.ca>> wrote: Thanks for the thoughtful reply Charline! You've given me a lot of ideas and feedback - see below for some specific thoughts. > > What will these personas be used for? Right now

Re: [Usability] User Experience Advocates

2010-05-13 Thread Kirk Bridger
Interesting idea, it introduces the idea of accountability which I think is lacking in many ways right now with Gnome Usability. But then the flip side of accountability is the ability to make changes. Which leads to a question and a point. Question: why did this not take off earlier Callum?

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-09-07 Thread Kirk Bridger
I'm actually tackling a similar problem in my "real job" right now. I found this to be an interesting look at what a pattern library is and what it should not be . It's a quick read that could then lead to an interesting discussion. For e

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-09-07 Thread Kirk Bridger
? Any thoughts, refinements, or other ideas? Kirk On 09/07/2010 08:28 PM, Allan Caeg wrote: I agree with Kirk. The two desktops can share the same UI patterns, but they may have different "components" or whatever it's called. Where do you think can we start? On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:44

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-09-28 Thread Kirk Bridger
ome more time to refine things and come back with something a little more thought out. Are we working with any deadlines or milestones that I should plan around? Kirk On 09/28/2010 03:19 AM, Calum Benson wrote: On 7 Sep 2010, at 18:44, Kirk Bridger wrote: I'm actually tackling a sim

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-10-12 Thread Kirk Bridger
nson wrote: On 28 Sep 2010, at 16:58, Kirk Bridger wrote: Thanks Calum - I saw that last week sometime and it has given me pause. I'm working through these questions in my work and I'm starting to refine my proposal. Pattern library shouldn't really be the "top-level"

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-10-13 Thread Kirk Bridger
On 10/13/2010 05:25 AM, Allan Day wrote: Kirk - in what ways do you see a pattern library as being inappropriate? I don't think a pattern library is inappropriate, I just think it is insufficient by itself. You actually outlined these arguments in your own email, and I agree with you com

Re: [Usability] Cross-Desktop UI Pattern Library

2010-10-14 Thread Kirk Bridger
I'm happy to meet early tomorrow (Friday) - could we meet between 7 and 8 PT (15 and 16 UTC) ? On 10/14/2010 07:33 AM, Allan Caeg wrote: Allan, Calum, and I agreed on setting a meeting. That's probably in the afternoon UTC time. When exactly can we meet? I won't be available tomorrow. Perha

Re: [Usability] Creating Personas to Enhance GNOME's UX

2010-10-31 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi all - this is a topic near and dear to my heart so please forgive the verbose answer. Up front I should say that I think personas are a key component of good UX, and without some kind of user definition you're going to run into problems, including the elastic user problem. Which typically

Re: [Usability] Creating Personas to Enhance GNOME's UX

2010-11-01 Thread Kirk Bridger
On 11/01/2010 05:49 AM, Allan Caeg wrote: In this case it looks like there is a desire to better understand the general Gnome user population. I'd suggest trying to focus the personas on a market approach, rather than a software tool approach, as it seems like they'll most lik

Re: [Usability] State of the HIG?

2011-03-10 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Phil, A few of us were working on the structure and general approach of the HIG back in the late fall. Since then we haven't been able to gain any momentum on the project due to conflicting priorities. We may be able to put some rough version together but I can't say for sure. Calum is

Re: [Usability] Touchscreen and gestures

2011-04-18 Thread Kirk Bridger
I think the quick answer here is no - it is not covered in our current draft material. But I agree we can and should provide guidance here. However I think this area of knowledge is still quite immature when compared to some of the other GUI patterns we're putting into the HIG. I think it sh

Re: [Usability] Desktop management. - Discussions topics proposal.

2012-02-09 Thread Kirk Bridger
I think the description sounds like a series of scenarios or use cases that are the focus of the design. The pattern library might be too abstract or might not address "workflow" on the desktop. The problem I've found with trying to create these kinds of things is that they tend to live in is

Re: [Usability] Grayed out windows

2012-04-24 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Denoyse, I believe your concern about the lack of contrast in non-focused window treatment has been mentioned before (and I share it). I haven't seen mention of the dimming of window content though. I only have one monitor but use the auto-splitting feature pretty heavily (window dragged

Re: [Usability] custom keyboard layout (xkb)

2015-10-29 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hey D Hardy, I suspect the right place to raise this is the desktop mailing list. https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list Kirk On 10/29/2015 05:23 AM, Diggory Hardy wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I'd like to convince Gnome to use a