On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:40 +1100, Maxwell Bowerman wrote:
An actual app for DTP is only one aspect though. GNOME would need a colour
management system such as ICM or ICC and easy calibration.
Calibration isn't easy, ever. It involves pieces of expensive hardware
stuck onto the screen and
--- Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The standard GTK+ colour picker dialog supports
taking colours from
anywhere on the screen
The colour picker dialog is on the list of system-wide
things to document in the User Guide, as it has a few
hidden features like this.
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Through we now have Scribus under QT, there is
still a notable lack of
applications in this area.
It would be a lot of work to develop and maintain
any fully featured
Desktop Publishing software. I'm impressed how
Scribus has been sucessful
in
--- Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I strongly
feel that close sucks for that dialog and that
finish is much
better. (Which is why I gave one approval to the UI
change despite
the inconsistency we knew it would introduce; others
objected strongly
on the consistency
On 3/24/06, Maxwell Bowerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Firstly though, a negative. I wish to lobby strongly against the Windows
XP-style start menu proposed by Novell:
http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=13589comment_id=93581
This appears to be a definite step backwards for us. The
--- Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Firstly though, a negative. I wish to lobby
strongly against the Windows
XP-style start menu proposed by Novell:
http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=13589comment_id=93581
This appears to be a definite step backwards for
us. The
--- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:32 +, Joachim Noreiko
wrote:
Whoever put 'Finish' there,
knowing full well it would stick out like a sore
thumb, needs a good slap.
This tone is not acceptable. Please be nice.
Fair enough. I apologize.
But we
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 12:34 -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22 Mar 2006, at 16:46, Bill Wohler wrote:
Also, there are a dazzling number of icon and desktop themes on the
GNOME site, but none are branded Default so I could check for
myself. What
Rodney Dawes wrote:
There was no consensus on whether to make it the default in 2.16 or
not.
Well, that's kind of a weird way of looking it. No one has even proposed
*including* it in the release yet.
-- Dan
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On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:34 -0500, Dan Winship wrote:
Rodney Dawes wrote:
There was no consensus on whether to make it the default in 2.16 or
not.
Well, that's kind of a weird way of looking it. No one has even proposed
*including* it in the release yet.
Exactly my point. It is foolish
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:26 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 21:18 +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 17:11 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
Since mute is an orthogonal operation to the volume setting,
perhaps the muted icon should continue to show the actual
--- Rodney Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Consistency is good.
Consistency is good. But what is consistent is
arguable, and usability
should take precedence.
No, the two must go hand in hand.
Users are quite capable of getting in a tizzy about
inconsistencies: why does that pref tool
On 23 Mar 2006, at 18:11, Shaun McCance wrote:
We have a love affair with icons alongside text, but
we're afraid to let them stand on their own. We even
default to icons+text toolbars.
We do, and that's simply because numerous usability studies have
shown that people find icon+text
On 3/24/06, Joachim Noreiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Rodney Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Consistency is good.
Consistency is good. But what is consistent is arguable, and usability
should take precedence.
No, the two must go hand in hand.
Telling developers (Rodney in this case)
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Rodney Dawes wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 02:56 +, Alan Horkan wrote:
Yes and no. I have my reservations and since I find Windows XP rather
annoying I wouldn't choose that menu layout for myself (I use the
Classic style of start menu when I use windows, I always
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 19:31 +, Calum Benson wrote:
On 23 Mar 2006, at 18:11, Shaun McCance wrote:
We have a love affair with icons alongside text, but
we're afraid to let them stand on their own. We even
default to icons+text toolbars.
We do, and that's simply because numerous
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 20:20 +, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
--- Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Help button is a perfect example. Because Apple
uses the single ? icon very effectively, they can
put
it almost anywhere in an interface.
Is ? a universally understood symbol?
I
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Rodney Dawes wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 02:50 +, Alan Horkan wrote:
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
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