On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 16:41 +1000, Nigel Tao wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:58 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > The Compose windows is NOT a dialog. Conceptually or in practice. It has > > menus. It has toolbars. It has Minimize/Maximize icons. It is a window. > > I don't know what the sound juicer UI is like, but the Compose window in > > Evolution is not a dialog. Please do not try to make it act like one. > > Those are fair points - you would want the compose window to show up in > the window list, for example. > > Maybe I should have said "dialog-like" rather than "dialog". My > argument is that, unlike e.g. an office document, the compose window > doesn't live for a long amount of time - I click compose or reply, type > my thing, and then fire it off.
remember that your usage may be different from others > And, more importantly, my workflow runs > top to bottom - I enter in the To field, then move down to the Subject > field, and then move down to the body. To finish it off, I hit the Send > button. The GNOME HIG recommends that the "affirmative button" or "the > last thing that you do" is in the bottom right because the eyes start at > the top left and scans down and right, ending at the bottom right. That > is why GNOME's OK and Cancel buttons are in a different order than > Windows (ignoring the separate issue that GNOME tends to auto-apply and > hence uses Close rather than OK). > > Just my two cents. > > Thanks, > Nigel. > > P.S. A somewhat out-of-date SoundJuicer screenshot is at > http://www.burtonini.com/computing/screenshots/sj-main.png > This is an application (and it has a menu bar), but it has dialog-like > one-shot (insert CD, launch SJ, do a small amount of editing (if any), > and hit the fire button) top-to-bottom workflow. > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers > _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
