Hello everybody and thank you for your (interesting) answers. 10-15 years ago, users had to deal with UI and adapt theirs habits to it. Nowadays, UIs fit to people habits... this is such a huge difference.
What I love with SeaMonkey is the merging with both a web browser and an email client. So clever ... Well, in my opinion, something wich is dedicated to deal with a lot of users have to stick to the rule of the 90-90, that means suitable for 90% of the population enven a 90yo grandma ! (the 90-90 is a personal rule, not a covention) A great exemple of 90-90 is an ATM interface. Designing something, even a chair, is not about drawing something, this happens at the last stage. Designing something is asking questions and collecting answers first. Who the users are ? Which is the program's interest ? Which problems are intended to be solved ? Which are the user's issues ? What do they like or dislike in a such program ? Are the users ready to "learn" something new (a really love this one !) As you understand, the main goal is to understand the "User" At stage two there is others (technicals) questions : what about accessibility ? what about colors, elements place, elements size ? How to reduce the number of clicks/actions to the strictly minimum How to collect stats and datas ? Dealing with a 90-90 interface means find a balance between all thoses parameters and of course ... is a tricky game ... but a game I love :) I do not want to be rude, to be critical, but the actual seamonkey UI is far away from the 90-90 rule and I let you check why. As a web navigator, I believe that is a good idea to stick as close as possible to this kind of rule. To conclude, I would make saemonkey my favorite web browser and not switching from Chrome to FF to SM, using best tools of each... I would like to help the seamonkey team to think, develop, and implement thoses questions, to make an even better SM. -> How to ? -> Who could I contact ? Thank you very much for reading guys, indeed. Thank you for your next messages... Paul Le 20/12/2015 18:51, Paul B. Gallagher a écrit : > Paul Gheno wrote: > >> Hello Dear seamonkey support reader, >> >> I've downloaded seamonkey for a while now, using it everyday. >> One of the big issue I encounter is the UI itself. >> >> -Top menu buttons are not efficient, not really intuitive > > You may be right about the icons, but I'm not a big icon kinda guy, so I > just read the words "Send," "Address," etc. and they're perfectly clear. > > One of the things I learned in my days as a teacher was that different > students have different learning styles, and the best strategy is to say > the same thing several different ways so they can all hear it. If the > program presents an icon that works for some people, and a bit of text > that works for others, and some other format that works for still > others, that's a good UI. If it presents the message in only one way, > some users will get it and some will not, and that's poor design. > >> -tabs cannot be closed in a simple way > > Sure they can. CTRL-W closes the current tab, as does CTRL-F4. You can > also close a tab by clicking the little "x" at the far right, under the > SeaMonkey symbol, or close all tabs by clicking the large "X" at the top > right of the window or by pressing ALT-F4. Finally, CTRL-Q closes the > entire SeaMonkey suite at once, no questions asked. > > It's true that there's no simple way to close a non-current tab; you > basically have to select a tab (make it active) in order to close it. > The nearest thing to an easy way is if you right-click the non-current > tab and choose "Close tab" -- still a two-step process, but they're > small, easy steps. > >> -seamonkey "modules" like IRC Chat, Email, etc ... are hidden. This >> features should appear in a usefull and easy way > > These features, as noted in other responses in this thread, are all > available with a single click on the corresponding icons at lower left, > just above the Windows "Start" button, unless the user has hidden the > status bar that contains them. > _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
