yes, you're both late in the thread.. thanks, bye bye! :p ok, j/k.. but.. I just don't feel like answering, sorry.. I'm bad at UI design, noone ever wanted to give his advices.. I have no idea how to make it user friendly.. I don't like either ones of your suggestions... ok, I'll just comment a little :@ in your menus, it's too unclear, too many options, and the 'group by user group' wtf is that? lol, I suppose a typo.. I don't like the 'group by' because it will confuse users who know the word 'group' means an msn group... in WLM, it's also "sort contacts by".. and in there, there's a "group xxx contacts together" (where xx is 'mobile' or 'non-im', etc...) btw.. > [ ] Treat away states as equivalent that is SO unclear... it took me a while to find a sentence that kind of makes you understand the menaing of the option, but this one is really non user friendly..
KKRT On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:40:37PM -0300, Gabriel Gambetta wrote: > I'm late to this thread as well, and I find the new sorting options > confusing :S > > The way I see this is as follows. From a design standpoint, there are a > few decisions that are mostly orthogonal and therefore should be > presented as orthogonal to the user (the way "hybrid mode" works now > actually affects several of these) : > > - How to group the contacts - by group, by status, or both > - Whether to sort the contacts within each toplevel branch by status or > not (by status only makes sense if the toplevel branches are by group) > - Whether to sort the contacts within each branch+status in ascending or > descending order > - Whether to sort the groups in ascending or descending order > - Whether to show or hide offline contacts > - Whether to treat all non-available and non-offline states as > equivalent for grouping purposes (ie away/not available/on the phone) > > The options we have now are more or less equivalent to these (except the > last two ones, which would be new). So how about a single "Contact > Sorting and Grouping" menu with : > > [ ] Group by User Group > [ ] Group by Status > ----- > [ ] Sort groups in ascending order > [ ] Sort contacts within each group by status > [ ] Sort contacts in ascending order > [ ] Hide offline contacts > [ ] Treat away states as equivalent > > In this case checking Group by Group, Group by Status and Hide Offline > Contacts would produce Hybrid mode. This proposed layout has two more > options than the current one and one less menu entry. > > What do you think? I'm willing to implement this if you want to try it. > > --Gabriel > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Gabriel Gambetta > Mystery Studio - http://www.mysterystudio.com > Gabriel's Stuff - http://www.mysterystudio.com/gabriel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
