Re: [Usability] UI design question

2008-06-30 Thread natan yellin
Hello, I'm curious by nature, so does your application already have a website? This is something that I've always felt would be useful. Regarding your question, I agree with Mathew that the noun-->verb relationship is a bit simpler. If you decide to use the verb-->noun design, I'd recommend hiding

Re: [Usability] Main Menu mockup

2008-11-10 Thread natan yellin
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Matthew McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If the five different menus are already cluttered, then you're not going to > > make something less cluttered by just munging them all together. On the > > other hand, if it's possible to simplify each of them en

Re: [Usability] Standard keyboard shortcut for opening a new tab?

2008-11-25 Thread natan yellin
If we're creating guidelines, I'd like to suggest ctrl+page-up and ctrl+page-down for switching tabs. AFAIK, the only tabbed application that doesn't currently follow that (with the obvious exception of Gnome Terminal) is Anjuta. -Natan On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Allan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Usability] New Sound Preferences and Volume Control

2008-12-03 Thread natan yellin
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Andy Owen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (mostly related: IMHO a more important issue is that the volume control > > through the list is not the same as for example Totem's volume control. > > Having to check two places where one application is silenced sounds l

Re: [Usability] Fwd: New Sound Preferences and Volume Control

2008-12-05 Thread natan yellin
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Diego Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/12/4 Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 17:37 +0100, Diego Moya wrote: >> > And this is how it would be used in applications that require direct >> > sound input, like the media player: >> > h

Re: [Usability] Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

2008-12-20 Thread natan yellin
I'm just one user, and I haven't read the entire forum thread that was mentioned, but I think I can represent every Gnome user I know when I say that opening new windows is confusing and annoying. If people feel strongly about opening new windows then they can change their own personal settings. It

Re: [Usability] Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

2008-12-20 Thread natan yellin
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Mark wrote: > 2008/12/20 David Nielsen : > > > > > > 2008/12/20 Mark > >> > >> > >> And for this entire issue where i made this thread for in the first > >> place. Don't expect me to be silent now. I will be vocal about this. > >> fedora has a "freedom" sign in i

Re: [Usability] Sub-category based grouping of icons in GNOME menus

2008-12-26 Thread Natan Yellin
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 09:29 +1930, Dokuro wrote: > > > What I proposed to him instead, was that the menu ought to demark > > > between sub-categories, something like this (just a mock-up): > > > > > > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/me

Re: [Usability] Sub-category based grouping of icons in GNOME menus

2008-12-26 Thread Natan Yellin
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:45 -0500, Natan Yellin wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Peter Clifton > > wrote: > > > I think we could tackle that problem simply by merging more preference > > dialogs to

Re: [Usability] Desktop/Nautilus Usability Enhancement Idea: Icon sheets

2009-01-08 Thread Natan Yellin
I like the idea a lot. When I have a bit more time, I'm going to try to come up with a prototype for this, along with some drag and drop functionality to make it usable for inexperienced users. (E.g. Dragging a file over a shape/sheet would make the shape expand so that the user knows that they ca

Re: [Usability] Tabs consistency in gnome applications

2009-01-22 Thread Natan Yellin
Please see the below email from the GNOME Shell list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Milan Bouchet-Valat Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:24 PM Subject: Re: #4 on ToDo list: make the top panel prettier To: Colin Walters Cc: Gnome List Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 à 16:40 -0500, Colin

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

2009-02-13 Thread Natan Yellin
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > 2009/2/12 Mackenzie Morgan : > > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 15:31 +0200, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > >> I just don't belive tabs *can* be streched that far with worthwhile > >> results, and thus I think it would be wiser to direct effort to fix > >> t

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

2009-02-14 Thread Natan Yellin
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 15:55 -0200, Daniel F Moisset wrote: > [...] > > As a user of English, spanish, and latin-american keyboards, I am quite > > sure this would be uncomfortable compared with ctrl+pgup/pgdn (which is > > also a defacto sta

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

2009-03-03 Thread Natan Yellin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Calum Benson wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 22:35 +0200, Natan Yellin wrote: > > > > I agree, but lets aim for default shortcuts that people already > > recognize from other applications. Ctrl-PgUp/Down is the de facto > > stand

Re: [Usability] GnomeShell - Recent Documents

2009-06-22 Thread Natan Yellin
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Florian Ludwig wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 20:50 +0530, Vasanth Kumar wrote: > > > > 1) A drop down arrow Next to the Title " Recent Documents" and that > > the data in the drop down menu contains Classifications / Categories > > of files. For example Documen

Re: [Usability] GnomeShell - Recent Documents

2009-06-22 Thread Natan Yellin
Hi Dan, On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Dan Brickley wrote: > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeZeitgeist says > > "Architecture > >* Experiment with Tracker, Soylent, and Empathy. >* Use an RDF based backend to allow better semantic metadata. (E.g. > Automatically tag files edited at a given

Re: [Usability] GnomeShell - Recent Documents

2009-06-28 Thread Natan Yellin
tan On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > We've been talking about doing a usability study. Is this something that > benefit? > > Stormy > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Natan Yellin wrote: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> On Mon, Jun 22

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

2009-08-20 Thread Natan Yellin
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Look at it from a user's point of view: I set my screen/panel layouts > up. That's my work. Nobody has a right to destroy it. > > To ignore this bug for 3+ years means that at a fundamental level, > Gnome doesn't care ab

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

2009-10-02 Thread Natan Yellin
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Karoliina Salminen < karoliina.t.salmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The reason why I pointed out the right click as problematic is the > following: > - what if you have single button mouse (Macs have single button mouse > by default) > - what if you have a touch s

Re: [Usability] getting involved

2009-10-27 Thread Natan Yellin
Hello Geraint, On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Geraint Jones wrote: > Hi all! > > I recently finished a usability related postgrad (Human Computer > Interaction with Ergonomics at UCLIC), and I'm interested in getting > involved with open source usability projects. If anyone has any advice > wi

Re: [Usability] getting involved

2009-11-01 Thread Natan Yellin
Hi Geraint, Sorry about the delayed reply. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Geraint Jones wrote: > Natan Yellin wrote: > > Hello Natan, > > Hello Geraint, > > > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Geraint Jones > <mailto:zcjt...@ucl.ac.uk>> wrote: >

Re: [Usability] Cheap Open Source Morae Alternative

2009-12-20 Thread Natan Yellin
What about an overview window with buttons like: [View a past session] [Record a new session] After clicking on [Re On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:19 AM, James Moschou wrote: > > What app did you use to make this mockup? :) > > Gtk Builder/Glade > > Also I agree that a wizard would not work. I just

Re: [Usability] Cheap Open Source Morae Alternative

2009-12-20 Thread Natan Yellin
window would be the same as if it was opened with [Record a new Session] On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Natan Yellin wrote: > What about an overview window with buttons like: > [View a past session] [Record a new session] > > After clicking on [Re > > > On Sat, Dec 19, 20

Re: [Usability] Cheap Open Source Morae Alternative

2009-12-20 Thread Natan Yellin
; > Got the idea from Brasero > http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/35029/screenshot_030_sw8XCE.png > > > On Monday, 21 December, 2009 05:14 AM, Natan Yellin wrote: > > Whoops, I hit the send button too soon. :) > > What about an overview window with buttons like: > [View a p

Re: [Usability] Cheap Open Source Morae Alternative

2009-12-20 Thread Natan Yellin
t; On Monday, 21 December, 2009 02:29 PM, Natan Yellin wrote: > > Yes. > > I don't know much about usability testing, so is each entry in "Recent > Projects" a group of related sessions or just one session (e.g. one user)? > > Natan > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-16 Thread Natan Yellin
Fwiw, Balsamiq gives out free licenses to open source projects. Natan On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Allan Caeg wrote: > +1 Who's in? ;) > > I have the same sentiments. Pencil is nice, but not as polished as > Balsamiq. I use Balsamiq al the time (at work and play). A native version > would b