[Usability] Theme Instant Apply

2006-04-30 Thread Thomas Wood
Could anyone give me some advice on bug 149323 (HIG issues with Theme Preferences). The issue is that the theme manager often takes longer than one second to apply a theme, so therefore it should not be instant apply. Would it be acceptable to most people to change the theme manager to

[Usability] Usability Issues in Theme Manager

2006-05-01 Thread Thomas Wood
I have a few bug reports I'm not sure how to resolve: Bug 331835 [1] - Missing maximize button (in Theme Preferences) Bug 330303 [2] - theme-manager theme details window should be transient... Any advice from a usability point of view on the above bugs would be much appreciated! -Thomas [1]

Re: [Usability] Usability Issues in Theme Manager

2006-05-01 Thread Thomas Wood
Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few bug reports I'm not sure how to resolve: Bug 331835 [1] - Missing maximize button (in Theme Preferences) I think what the reporter really wants is a 'smart resize' button like Mac OS has had for years

Re: [Usability] Resizability of windows

2006-05-02 Thread Thomas Wood
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: [...] Having said all that, I don't understand why the Theme Preferences window is not a dialog and is resizable, but doesn't become maximizable automatically. That looks like too much flexibility in Metacity. I think the problem here is the theme preferences is a

Re: [Usability] Colour Schemes Tab

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas Wood
Sven Herzberg wrote: On So, 2006-10-29 at 19:02 +, Thomas Wood wrote: I'm currently working on a colour schemes tab for gnome-theme-manager. I have attached a screenshot of the current UI (note this is not in CVS yet). I would be glad of any usability and accessibility comments

Re: [Usability] Colour Schemes Tab

2006-11-01 Thread Thomas Wood
Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote: [..] When work on gtk named colors was done first, it was supposed that there will be color schemes that will define complete look of desktop widgets. http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/SymbolicThemableColors It's usually very hard to select consistent colors on

Re: [Usability] Possible UI Freeze Break in Clearlooks

2007-02-27 Thread Thomas Wood
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: [...] We can simply take the tick back with the new color. I agree that people may confusing between cross and ticks. Great! Just a heads up to say the change has been made in the 2.9.4 release of gtk-engines to revert the checkbox mark from crosses to ticks.

[Usability] Control Center Appearance Capplet

2007-04-16 Thread Thomas Wood
I'm currently looking at integrating the various appearance settings throughout GNOME into a single Appearance Settings application for the control center. I have made some mockups, which can be seen here: http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings We've discussed these on the

Re: [Usability] Control Center Appearance Capplet

2007-04-18 Thread Thomas Wood
On 18/04/07 18:47, Calum Benson wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:23 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote: Either that, or including the remaining options in the theme. For those on the Options tab it might make sense as some themes might want to specify if icons are shown in buttons for example

Re: [Usability] Control Center Appearance Capplet

2007-05-09 Thread Thomas Wood
Firstly, apologies for the dely in replying. I often miss e-mails if I am not explicitly included in the recipient list! On 18/04/07 17:53, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: [...] I also think people will change their background picture far more often than they change anything else in the window.

Re: [Usability] Tooltip delays aren't settable

2007-07-30 Thread Thomas Wood
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:25:13 -0400 Caleb Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems that the default tooltip delay in GNOME is 0, meaning that tooltips show up as soon as a button or menu item is highlighted. I find this really annoying, and

Re: [Usability] Mousetweaks usability discussion

2007-10-31 Thread Thomas Wood
On 31 Oct 2007, at 13:54, Denis Washington wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:44 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 19:20 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le samedi 13 octobre 2007, à 14:25 +0200, Francesco Fumanti a écrit : Hello, [...] I have made a mockup that integrates

Re: [Usability] GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest

2010-01-13 Thread Thomas Wood
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 10:35 +, Charline wrote: I would appreciate it if everybody who is planning on attending the GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest could speak up and share their ideas of what we should focus on while together, and what things each person plans to bring to the event or

Re: [Usability] GNOME 3 Usability Hackfest

2010-01-13 Thread Thomas Wood
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 14:38 +, Allan Day wrote: Can you clarify what you mean by 'usability assessment'? Are you referring to heuristic analysis or to actual user testing? I guess I was really just hoping for a useful feedback and prototyping session, so we can uncover any weakness in the

Re: [Usability] Usability Hackfest Social Activities

2010-01-15 Thread Thomas Wood
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 14:36 +, Calum Benson wrote: A possibility for one of these meals would be to meet up with other GNOME folk who are in London. Perhaps we could tie in with a GNOME London Beer [2] event? I like the sound of that :) I can definitely arrange that too! Regards,

Re: [Usability] When does the hackfest start?

2010-02-21 Thread Thomas Wood
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 14:21 -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi, http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/London2010 http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/London2010/GoalsAndAgenda What time of day does the hackfest start? I can't seem to find this rather vital piece of information on any of

Re: [Usability] London GNOME Beers - 26th Feb (+ a11y folks)

2010-02-25 Thread Thomas Wood
Unfortunately the usual Pizza Express was full, but there is an even closer Pizza Express round the corner so we have a table booked for 8:15 at: 7/9 St Bride Street, London EC4A 4AS We'll still all meet in the Olde Cheshire Cheese at 7pm and head on over about an hour later, but if anyone is

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Wood
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 12:20 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote: Hi!, On mié, 2010-03-03 at 00:03 +0100, Filippo Argiolas wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Filippo Argiolas fargio...@gnome.org wrote: [cut] Well it's not actually the radio functionality that I really care,

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Wood
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 14:49 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote: Hi :), On mié, 2010-03-03 at 11:45 +, Thomas Wood wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 12:20 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote: Hi!, On mié, 2010-03-03 at 00:03 +0100, Filippo Argiolas wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:55 PM