On Nov 4, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
Am Sonntag, den 04.11.2007, 02:47 + schrieb Tristan Wibberley:
I plan to add a Store configuration permanently checkbutton to the
main window, see http://glatzor.de/filesink/displayconfig/restore.png
Store configuration is an irrelevant implementation detail. What is
important is what's happening to the computer's display.
Also, when adding a checkbox, always ask yourself: How obvious is the
unchecked state? Here, what does it mean for Store configuration
permanently to be unchecked? Would it store the configuration until
the next full moon? :-)
If a checkbox's unchecked state can't be obvious from the label, use
radio buttons instead. For example:
Use these settings: (*) Indefinitely ( ) Until I log out
That said, after reading this thread I don't understand the use case
for applying settings only for the current session anyway. I suggest
addressing that question first, as it will help you compose the rest of
the design.
I never liked that sort of thing - it's not a part of the settings,
but rather what to do with them upon clicking an action at the
bottom. What do you think of changing OK to something like Use for
this session and, if the user is a member of admin, adding another
button along side it Set as default?
...
We would only need a better wording. The term session should not be
used since it is too technical. Using default seems to be to generic.
I am not sure about the future of the test button. Currently we launch
a second x server with the new config file. But many drivers and cards
do not support this correctly and things tend to break. If we can
apply
changes instantly a confirmation dialog with keep and revert button
would appear after hitting one of the apply buttons. So the button
order for the main window would be the following one:
[Apply Permanently] [Cancel] [Apply Temporarily]
...
The same problem applies here as with the checkbox. What does
Temporarily mean?
But we would still need at least tooltips:
Restore the chosen configuration after starting the computer and
Revert configuration after shutting down the computer?
...
A control that already has a text label, such as a command button or
checkbox, should not need a tooltip to be understandable to most of the
target audience.
Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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