On Mon, 22.04.13 14:36, Allan Day ([email protected]) wrote: > Hi all, > > This is something that me, Jon and Jakub have been thinking about for > some time, and is now at the stage where we can start to think about > implementation. I'm proposing it as a feature for 3.10 [1]. > > The main element of the design is to combine the sound, network, > bluetooth, power and user menus into a single menu. This will enable > us to resolve a number of UX issues we've encountered with the > existing design (badness on touch, difficulties having the user name > in the top bar, lots of complexity in some menus, like network, > virtually none in others, like sound...). It will also give us greater > flexibility, and will allow us to deal with some features - like > airplane mode - in a more elegant and discoverable manner.
This all looks so ... crowded in the wireframes. So very very crowded. That can't be good? I understand that much of this is not supposed to be shown when not in use, but this does open a lot of questions to me. i.e. you have to figure out what "in use" means, i.e. for audio you probably have to think about some latency after each action that audio is still considered in use, and what about the usecase, where I am in a presentation at a conference and somebody sends me a video, and i want to see it, but want to turn off audio first, so that nobody notices that i watch a video rather than watch the speaker? And regarding the networking thing: if you want to show the networking bit only when traffic is required, then you create a chicken and egg problem, where the first network operation of an app will always fail, because you use it as a trigger but can't offer the network immeidately yet... So, I see tons of problems coming up when you try to be "context sensitive"... You need a lot of magic where you have to anticipate actions of the user before he actually does them. Because the user might want to change the volume *before* playing audio, and set up the network *before* doing something, and so on and so on... Also, if this menu shows when we are in airplane mode, and I presumably can use it to get out of airplane mode: how do i actually get into airplane mode if the option isn't shown then? But first and foremost, this all looks so crowded. Looks more like some feature-loaded KDE menu to me, rather then a minimalistic GNOME menu... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
