OK yeah I am kind of obsessed with hiding things from the user. By dumbing down things you make the software more accessible to the mainstream public. But this does not mean giving the user less control, just makes it more easier for people starting out or who are unfamiliar with the software. It will also mean less work is needed on documentation as your can just skip past or more quickly explain things.
In this case you don't need to show the user the settings unless the download has failed. I suppose it would also make sense to allow changing the settings before the download starts as well. It just fills up the screen with unnecessary stuff otherwise. > -----Original Message----- > From: devl-admin at freenetproject.org [mailto:devl-admin at freenetproject.org] > On Behalf Of Matthew Toseland > Sent: 19 December 2002 18:01 > To: devl at freenetproject.org > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] SplitFileRequestServlet > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:35:46PM -0000, Simon Porter wrote: > > I'd quite like to see a progress bar similar to what eMule has. Bits > > that its downloaded OK fill in the bar in the colour blue and bits that > > it could not download are marked as red. Bits that it is currently > > downloading are yellow. The look of the progress bar would be the same > > as used on the Freenet Gateway page so everything sticks to the same > > theme. > Bombe's mockup follows more or less this principle. Not exactly a > progress bar, more a bunch of cells... you'd have to see it. > > > > It would be to hide away any settings and just have one button marked as > > 'Start Download', the progress bar and statistics just below the bar. If > > there is a problem downloading the file the interface should expand and > > reveal the settings that are used at the moment on the current page and > > have a button marked 'Retry Download'. Once you click retry download the > > settings could just hide away again. > Is it just me or is there an obsession of late with hiding things from > the user? :) > > > > Once the download has successfully finished it should then give you a > > new button marked 'Save File'. Clicking that brings up the normal > > browser's save file dialogue. > Hmmm. No. We don't want to have to cache more than a segment at a time. > > > > Just my idea for how the GUI could work. I can do a mockup of it if > > you'd like to see what I mean visually. > > > > Simon > > > > -- > Matthew Toseland > toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > amphibian at users.sourceforge.net > Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. > Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/1/03 > http://freenetproject.org/ _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
