Agreed, thanks for the thoughtful comments. The UI team has an eye on this issue! -Nick
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:35 AM, zeniko <[email protected]> wrote: > > The New Tab Page used to be (somewhen between versions 2 and 3) slick > and customizable. Now there have been added (1) a line telling me to > synchronize my bookmarks, (2) a line with one of about a dozen tips > and (3) a corner trying to tell me that Chrome now supports themes. > > IMHO several things could be improved here: > > * Either make all of these optional in the way that thumbnails and > recently closed tabs are, so that I can get rid of these elements > which just visually distract but don't help me at all... > > * or at least be clever and don't show these after a reasonable amount > of iterations, i.e. don't show the corner once a custom theme has been > installed, don't show the bookmarks sync note after being ignored half > a dozen times (it's still discoverable enough through both the Wrench > menu and(!) the Options dialog), and don't show the same tip more than > e.g. three times. > > * If you do the latter, the theme corner should step back so that it > doesn't cover the two tip lines (with the window at a certain size, I > can't even click the "Start now" link for bookmark synchronization). > > * Also, why is the bookmark synchronization line not integrated into > the other tip line? Do you plan to expose every new feature in such a > prominent way (making it a slight effort to ignore them)? Wasn't > Chrome about featuring minimal UI at some time...? > > Cheers, > Simon > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
