Nicely done, I agree with less jargon. Let me take that further: we could dispense with the big on/off switch altogether and use checkboxes throughout to enable/disable since the plus-minus will effectively remove them.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/unity-settings-panel-home.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/unity-settings-panel-applications.png Or we leave the big switch and when off it would disable the lens and grey out the underlying feature options. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/unity-settings-panel-applications2.png On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Dylan McCall <dylanmcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oops, I accidentally sent this to just Mark a while ago. Sorry, Mark! > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <m...@ubuntu.com> > wrote: > > On 24/09/12 02:29, Sam Hewitt wrote: > > > > I would like to append > > https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/unity-settings-keyboard-shortcuts.pngto > > the above. > > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Georgi Karavasilev <motors...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > >> > >> Sam has been working on extending his mockups so here are the > improvements > >> hitherto (that means "so far"): > >> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/main.png > >> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/unity-settings-panel-applications.png > >> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/unity-settings-panel-home.png > >> on > > One niggle: every string on the right side starts with "Display." > Instead — especially when you use an On/Off switch — these labels > should not be actions, but objects. You can find examples of this > being done correctly in System Settings: "[] Cursor blinks in text > fields", "Screen Reader [On/Off]", "Automatic backups [On/Off]". > > So, I made some changes to the mockup: > > http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/mockups/unity-settings-panel-applications-dylanmccall-1.png > > Some ideas here: > I don't think it makes sense for the "Off" state in an On/Off switch > to be destructive. If that must happen, it should be a button. There > is no turning it back on, after all. Instead, I removed the note about > that, assuming it is possible to change Unity so a lens can be > disabled without being uninstalled). I then placed some Add / Remove > buttons below the list of lenses. > Usually, the On/Off switch for a selected feature is at the top of > that feature's settings panel. You can see this most prominently in > the Ubuntu Online Accounts settings panel. So, I moved it to the top > here. It's all misaligned and weird looking in my mockup, so that > would have to be explored further. (Probably just remove the colourful > box it's sitting in). > I changed "visible in Dash" to "visible in Dash Home" just to be > internally consistent. This is likely the first and only exposure to > Unity's jargon for most users, so using it is really not much > different from referring to "Linux" and "Xorg". Here's a second > mockup sans jargon: > > http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/mockups/unity-settings-panel-applications-dylanmccall-2.png > > > > > > > These are getting pretty good, thank you! > > > > The On/Off toggles could be on the left pane, so you can see which scopes > > are enabled immediately. > > > > There could be an "Add Scopes" button at the bottom left which takes you > to > > the right place in USC to find more scopes. > > That would be going against the switch pattern developed by the > Canonical design team: > http://design.canonical.com/2012/01/system-settings-for-precise/ > That pattern (or at least something a lot like it) seems to have > developed as a defacto standard; you can see it happening pretty > consistently in gnome-control-center 3.6, and in the latest > gnome-tweak-tool. > > I think there's some serious overuse of switches here. As a general > idea, if you're thinking about putting the switches on the left > because it's hard to tell which switch is which, switches are the > wrong choice. Use checkboxes. They're already on the left, after all ;) > > A switch makes sense if you have a bunch of options for a given > feature, in which case an On/Off toggle is a nice, self-explanatory > way to also turn the entire feature on and off. When the entire point > of your panel is to turn features on or off (and there are no other > buttons), the switch is redundant and — since it's squished between a > bunch of other switches — confusing. > > > > > Otherwise, great start! > > I agree :) >
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