-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [email protected] wrote on 08/10/10 09:48: >... > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 02:37, Jorge O. Castro <[email protected] >... >> I have an upstream working on an application, he wants to add an >> account dialog to his application, this is what he came up with: >> http://i.imgur.com/9vFZF.png >> >> So at first glance I thought "That doesn't look right". Here's >> gwibber's account dialog: http://i.imgur.com/e504n.png >> >> Gwibber's is based on Empathy. Ken decided that it was important for >> the Gwibber account manager to operate as a separate application >> outside of Gwibber itself. While he was reimplementing it, he took the >> opportunity to streamline it and change the design to make it more >> consistent with the account dialog that Empathy had at the time. >> (Because hey, why not, make them behave the same!)
Empathy's has improved a bit, partly influenced by a design I did for it a year ago. <http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/AccountsAndSettings> I still think it's an annoying problem for Empathy's "Accounts", "Personal Information", and "Preferences" to be three separate windows. >> Here's a separate design that Ryan had come up with (just to put it >> out here): >> http://s3.amazonaws.com/scrnshots.com/screenshots/191324/gwibber-home-screenpng That's probably giving it undue prominence. >> From playing with both the empathy and gwibber dialogs they seem >> similar enough for most people to not care -- though there are some >> small inconsistencies that should be fixed. Evolution is different, as >> well as other apps. Searching through the GNOME wiki and HIG doesn't >> seem to give me any answers. Has anyone out there done research into >> this topic? Is there supposed to be an example application where can I >> point upstream application authors to emulate when it comes to adding >> account information? Is anyone aware of GNOME handling what app >> authors should do? I'd be more than happy to take the conversation >> upstream if that's where it should be. I haven't seen any Ubuntu application present accounts well yet. So I'd rather see more experimentation, than projects agreeing on a consistently bad design. > Luke started a thread a while ago.. he addressed the User Accounts > dialog, but this is a beautiful solution that can also work for many > other types of account setup wizards etc.. > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 16:10, Allan Day <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >... >> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UserAccountDialog > > i think this is the most reasonable thing to look at for now, if one > is looking for a good design to model an accounts dialog after.. >... The main issue with that design (as I told its developers a couple of years ago) is the excessive modality. There shouldn't need to be a separate "Changing password for" dialog, or a separate "Restrictions"/ "Account Information" dialog. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyvFr0ACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecoBFQCfY+Q7CPRIip5tu3GDc/uw/4fm e/gAoIxd61rrBnTEtY+oWrv/d/LtmjBs =A9DA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
