I like the mock. Glen has a veto on any UI. I think the "Options" is unnecessary until implemented so it can be trimmed off.
The inches/mm issue is well done in Microsoft Word where you can type the units you want to use instead of being forced to use one or another. M-A On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mohamed Mansour <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi guys, how are you doing? I asked Marc-Antoine about creating a mock-up > of the print settings so I was looking into different printer > settings user interfaces from various products. > > > http://i44.tinypic.com/rka0c5.png > > The similarities between them is quite similar, but I really like what > Firefox has done with how they divide their sections, as well, how the > display the marginal data on the fly. They all have the following things in > common: > > - Real-Time displaying of margin changes on the paper > - Changing headers / footers and allow custom desc > - Page orientations (Landscape and Portrait) > > What I liked about the Microsoft products is that everything is in one > page. The user will not be confused with many > clicks, and everything is there. But, the sections are not divided, they all > look squished. > > Here is my initial proposal. > > > http://i40.tinypic.com/14ki9w0.png > > Only a single page, where the user will enter his format, options (if any), > margins, and header/footer. The components are same as Firefox but all in > one page. We should probably do a drop down to state which metric to use > (inch/cm) since only America uses inches. > > I have brought my mother to test this, and mind you, she is very new to > computers (very inexperienced), she liked the above version because > everything she needs is in her finger tips and understands it better than > the others. > > So that is my take, what do you think? I would like to send this email off > to Ben/Glen/Nick since they are the UI team and may have a better UI > perspective on how to do things. Let me know if its allowed to be sent to > dev mailing list! > > Thanks! > > -- Mohamed Mansour > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
