-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 27/07/11 16:05: >... > On 27 July 2011 13:39, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> wrote: >> >> We have no evidence that a non-trivial proportion of people notice >> differently colored icons in the menu bar. > > You might say that's an assumption, based on personal experience and > observation. Sure, it's not a scientific test, and I only have tested > it on 10-20 people. But I noticed it the first time it changed color > and I was surprised by how effective that really is.
Yes, there seems to be a huge variation in the degree to which people notice small things on the screen. The sort of people who contribute to Ubuntu, for example, often find a colored icon in a panel quite enough to notify them of software updates. They can't understand how anyone would possibly not see it. But in user tests, nobody does. >> I don't see how they'd be more likely to search for them in the menu >> bar. > > * the indicators are visible. The launcher is not. > * bluetooth is displayed as an indicator, not as a launcher. Fair points. > * you often have many usb devices connected. > * devices need a description. Menus as suitable for that. Launchers > aren't. Those two don't seem to be related to the question of whether people will look to disconnect/eject a device in the first place. >> Personally, I would find more inviting a launcher that I could put >> anything into -- applications, bookmarks, documents, folders, >> contacts, whatever. I can do that with the Mac OS X Dock and (mostly) >> with the Windows 7 taskbar. > > Interesting. Wouldn't that make the launcher notifications (usb, etc) > even more difficult to find? I don't know what you mean by launcher notifications. > I thought I would want to keep all of my > most used applications on the launcher and that I would temporarily > move icons up and down according to what I'm doing so that I could > rearrange keyboard shortcuts. Turns out I do, but in a much smaller > degree than I had expected. The first six launchers are completely > static. The next four is more "dynamic", used for documents I'm > working on right now, but don't need to launch using keyboard > shortcuts. That works well for me, because then I launch and switch to > my most used applications using only the left hand, and the shortcuts > get very familiar. The work I'm doing right now changes, so I have to > look up the shortcut number in any case, meaning that it doesn't > bother me that I have to use two hands. In that regard, it would be > nice if we could make a certain window type ungroupable, so that you > could easily switch between open writer documents, for instance. >... Yes, there may be a useful distinction between document-based applications (for which it's best to show open documents in the launcher) and other types (for which it's best to show the application itself). - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4xKu0ACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecp7YQCfe8pC5/MqCOKG02IsuftUsYOy xecAnA+cjjGb83kOueieNcK+4Qsf6Tyf =DN65 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp