On Tuesday 25 October 2011 20:41:23 David Edmundson wrote: > KDE Usability is the mailing list I had in my mind when I wrote it. I > didn't mean do distract from the focus of a thread I think is quite > important. Interesting that two devs mentioned the usability mailing list. I hope this is an indication that it is useful again. My last interaction with this list was no reply to a very concrete question from the KWin team for usability guidance [1]. Since then I considered the list as just dead. > > Anyway, given I've decided I should pay more attention to plasma and > get away from just hacking constantly on one project, to make up for > it here is a breakdown of statusbars the most commonly used apps in > KDE. This was made with a fresh account with no settings altered. <snip> > > I think the important thing to do is to make a list of the uses of the > status bar; displaying the URL of links, showing download progress, > showing errors, showing the filename etc. Then to analyse these on a > use by use basis (not an app by app basis) "where is the best place > this piece of information" (which could be nowhere, a KMessageBox, > tooltips, menus, or even remaining in the status bar). If an app then > ends up with nothing left in the status bar it's time to remove it. This matches with what I had in mind when I wrote that we need to extract the useful messages into some better fitting UI elements. > > For me the issue isn't so much wasted space as much as an > inconsistency in where the same piece information is displayed between > apps. +1 and that's not limited to the statusbar :-( > > (sorry for the essay) not at all, it was an interesting read
Cheers Martin [1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-usability&m=130393074318976&w=2 > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
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