Re: [Usability] gnome-terminal shortcuts

2005-12-29 Thread Steve Fosdick
Joachim Noreiko wrote: > SHIFT+CTRL+V is an awkward combination for > something that's used frequently. Probably the easiest way round that is to use selections rather than copy/paste. If you select some text in the terminal window, or another application, then centre-click in the terminal wi

Re: [Usability] main window position

2005-12-29 Thread Steve Fosdick
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > You should report this as a bug for each program. It's a basic part of a > spatial interface that all windows (other than alerts or dialogs) should > remember where you left them. Does this include which workspace the window was on? Remembering that would be even m

Re: [Usability] Faded File Extensions

2006-01-08 Thread Steve Fosdick
Alan Horkan wrote: > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Nigel Tao wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:46:34 +1100 >> From: Nigel Tao >> To: usability gnome org, nautilus-list gnome org >> Subject: [Usability] Faded File Extensions >> >> When showing files, one theory is that you show the ".txt" and ".png" >

[Usability] Logging Out - Still a bit of a mess

2006-11-10 Thread Steve Fosdick
When logging out from Gnome is is reasonably common to see applications suddenly appear on the screen which had previously been hidden (minimised or on a different workspace). These applications don't usually get a chance to fully re-draw their windows but the whole think looks a mess and a bit un

Re: [Usability] Gome is Too BIG..

2008-03-19 Thread Steve Fosdick
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:33:57 -0500 "Matthew Nuzum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally don't see a way around this. As a large screen high-dpi > user I'm going to want my panels to be bigger, the spacing between > buttons to be larger and the fonts to be bigger. Speaking personally, this is

Re: [Usability] Popup Scrollbar Demo

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Fosdick
On 09/05/08 09:39:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > It has been a while since I posted about the original concept here. > It proved to be hard to get across. Now I can offer a Python-GTK > demo and a moderated video. > > GTK feature request: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53041

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

2008-06-16 Thread Steve Fosdick
On 15/06/08 02:46:19, Kirk Bridger wrote: > It sounds like there's something I'm missing about what tasks the > user would be doing where browsing provides the best interface. For me it is when I want to listen to some music but I don't know what I want to listen to. I may know something about

Re: [Usability] Gnome usability question regarding preference dialog

2009-01-28 Thread Steve Fosdick
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 09:37 +, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: > 2009/1/28 Anirudh Sanjeev : > > Hi, > > > > I'm writing an application targeted towards gnome users. I've noticed > > most of the preference windows have only a "close" button. Often, an > > accidentally changed setting cannot be rev

Re: [Usability] Gnome usability question regarding preference dialog

2009-01-28 Thread Steve Fosdick
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 12:04 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Hi Anirudh! > I'm not sure how a Apply-button would help you more than instant-apply > in that situation. > With instant apply: > 1. Click a checkbox. > 2. See the change happen. > 3. Figure out that "oh, wait, I don't want that". > 4. C

Re: [Usability] Gnome usability question regarding preference dialog

2009-01-28 Thread Steve Fosdick
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 11:07 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > While all of these cases indeed suck, the point was that they > don't suck any less with Apply/Cancel. In a typical dialog > without instant apply, Cancel does nothing after you've hit > Apply. According to the current HIG section 3.3.2 t

Re: [Usability] Tab implementation review

2009-02-13 Thread Steve Fosdick
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 12:54 +, Allan Day wrote: > I agree that, in an ideal world, we wouldn't have tabs and we'd just > have really awesome window management instead. I'd also agree that > improving window management is important, and I would hope that, in the > future, window management gets

Re: [Usability] HIG: File New/Open/Quit, etc.

2009-03-26 Thread Steve Fosdick
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 22:12 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Agreed except for the last two. > > For "Save", it shouldn't be a requirement of HIG compliance that an > application requires users to understand the distinction between RAM > and disk (an increasingly irrelevant distinction as

[Usability] Strange title bar in GNOME 2.28

2009-10-23 Thread Steve Fosdick
I attach a couple of partial screen shots which show some strange window title bar behaviour observed on Debian testing which is currently mostly GNOME 2.28, with a few bits that are still 2.26. The first screen shot, iceweasel.png show what I saw immediately upon this upgrade. A couple of things