[Usability] Ellipsis on buttons

2006-03-23 Thread Joachim Noreiko
How do I describe a button that only says '...' ? Eg, in the Keyboard prefs, Layouts tab. Ccing to the usability list -- does the HIG say anything about this? Should it? ___ Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!.

Re: [Usability] Ellipsis on buttons

2006-03-23 Thread Calum Benson
On 23 Mar 2006, at 09:26, Joachim Noreiko wrote: How do I describe a button that only says '...' ? Eg, in the Keyboard prefs, Layouts tab. Probably Browse or Open depending on the context. It would be interesting to know what the accessible description of those buttons are, as that's

Re: [Usability] Ellipsis on buttons

2006-03-23 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Calum Benson wrote: Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:56:56 + From: Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joachim Noreiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Gnome usability usability@gnome.org, GNOME Documentation gnome-doc-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Usability] Ellipsis on buttons

Re: [Usability] Ellipsis on buttons

2006-03-23 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Shaun McCance wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:50 +, Alan Horkan wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Calum Benson wrote: On 23 Mar 2006, at 09:26, Joachim Noreiko wrote: How do I describe a button that only says '...' ? You describe it as a bug which must be

Re: [Usability] Mute in GNOME mixer applet does not have correct behavior

2006-03-23 Thread Jaap Haitsma
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 17:11 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 19:57 +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote: Hi, Current behavior There are 5 icons in GNOME to show the volume of an audio card stock_volume-mute: A speaker with a red X stock_volume-0: A

Re: [Usability] Ellipsis on buttons

2006-03-23 Thread Joachim Noreiko
--- Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are largely what I was referring to, as well as some of the icons in iTunes: http://kwc.org/blog/archives/desktop.itunes.jpg You know, I'm so used to those I didn't think of them. (What is that a shot of, by the way? It's not OS X but

Re: [Usability] Finish vs. Close in gnome-control-center dialogs

2006-03-23 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Raphael Bosshard wrote: Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:49:36 +0100 From: Raphael Bosshard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: usability@gnome.org Subject: [Usability] Finish vs. Close in gnome-control-center dialogs Hello there, can someone of you usability-gurus take a look at h

[Usability] Thoughts on GNOME and DTP

2006-03-23 Thread Maxwell Bowerman
Guys, I have a few ideas for GNOME that I would like to share with you, particularly in regard to the area of DTP that is an emerging area for our desktop. Firstly though, a negative. I wish to lobby strongly against the Windows XP-style start menu proposed by Novell:

Novell Start menu [was Re: [Usability] Thoughts on GNOME and DTP]

2006-03-23 Thread Alan Horkan
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Maxwell Bowerman wrote: Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:40:04 +1100 From: Maxwell Bowerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'usability@gnome.org' usability@gnome.org Subject: [Usability] Thoughts on GNOME and DTP Guys, I have a few ideas for GNOME that I would like to share with you,

Re: [Usability] Finish vs. Close in gnome-control-center dialogs

2006-03-23 Thread Elijah Newren
On 3/23/06, Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Dobey says the button label was changed to 'Finish' after user testing I'm not inclined to disagree with the nice people at Novell (but if you really wanted to nit-pick you could ask about how the testing was conducted, if the sample of

Re: [Usability] Thoughts on GNOME and DTP

2006-03-23 Thread Alan Horkan
[The recipient is not subscribe to the list, you should probably CC him. I'm on the list though, please dont CC me.] On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Maxwell Bowerman wrote: Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:40:04 +1100 From: Maxwell Bowerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'usability@gnome.org' usability@gnome.org

Re: [Usability] Finish vs. Close in gnome-control-center dialogs

2006-03-23 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Elijah Newren wrote: Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:09:17 -0700 From: Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Raphael Bosshard [EMAIL PROTECTED], usability@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Usability] Finish vs. Close in gnome-control-center dialogs

Re: [Usability] Finish vs. Close in gnome-control-center dialogs

2006-03-23 Thread Elijah Newren
On 3/23/06, Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont recall the earlier versions including a Finish button either. Right. Depending on what you mean by 'earlier versions', but making my best guess at it, those versions didn't include a finish button. Rodney changed the dialog to not be