-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jose daLuz schrieb: > On 10/26/07, Sebastian Pölsterl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My problem is that the user can activate an action in two different ways: >> 1) Just clicking on a match (default action) >> 2) Displaying the list of actions and selecting an action there >> >> But most of the time the match has a different icon than all the >> actions. The action's icon is displayed in history, because 1) silently >> activates the default action. Would the actions have the same icon as >> the match, the icon would be useless for the actions, because it doesn't >> give any additional information. The only thing that might be useful is >> that the icon of the default action has the icon of match, but I'm not >> sure if this would only cause even more confusion. >> >> I can't speak for anyone else, but for me the problem is finding the > history entry I want in a long list, not trying to determine the specific > action for an entry. I use the deskbar history most often for websites or > files I go back to over and over, and the action is almost always the same > for these items. > > I find the action icon does not always fully describe the action - for music > files, for instance, I get a default open, open with VLC, open with Movie > Player, open with Banshee, all of which have the same action icon. Same with > text files, multiple editors all with the same icon. I would suggest the > match icon is more meaningful and makes locating the history item easier. > I got an idea: How about showing the applications' icon instead of the generic open icon. I'm not sure if it actually works, but I think this would improve things.
> One way of handling this might be to include an actions icon at the end of > each history entry. So you click on the history entry and get whatever the > original action was, or you click on the arrow and get the same actions > dialog that you get with the original results. > I think this would make it only more complicated. > While I'm on the subject of finding a particular entry in the history list, > what do you think about the idea of making the most recent history item > clicked on go to the top of the list? So history items you use all the time > would always be at the top, less frequent or one-time entries would fall to > the bottom, with a maximum number of entries so old items would eventually > drop off the list completely? When you click on a match from the history handler the item will go to the top of history. This might be useful when a item from the dropdown menu is selected, too. However, history behaved exactly the same in previous versions, too. I'm not sure if we should really change this. - -- Greetings, Sebastian Pölsterl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHIv9S1ygZeJ3lLIcRAnjtAKCGbvqRCOBxjVEIC4peZAi+TUqwxwCfdrJw Ntx0JbvPa+FRf72sN64D8uY= =TrFn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ deskbar-applet-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/deskbar-applet-list
