On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:14:57PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:40, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: > > El Mon, 12-10-2009 a las 22:36 -0400, Bernie Innocenti escribió: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Michael just passed by the Acetarium and, since the dinner was late, we > >> found the time to test and review his latest prototype^W patch. > >> > >> I'm loving how the menus suddenly are now snappy and responsive. Please, > >> test it yourself and report back. If we like this change, I think we > >> should go on and also kill the code that this patch makes redundant. > > I'm more concerned about developers proposing big user experience > changes because they feel it's better. Before I look at the patch I > would like to know if there's agreement from people close to our users > that this behavior change is desired. How can we get that?
From [1]: "Also the context menu, that appears when hovering for a moment over an icon, providing some settings or features, irritated at least five children more than it was supportive. Only two children used the context menu of the home screen-icons to identify the activity, because the name of the activity is displayed on top of the menu." "[The children] were partially bothered [by the context menu-function] and one girl even groaned every time the menu appears, because she did not want it to." Eben's justification of popup-menus[2] (which I alway re-buy into everytime I read it) is perhaps not being absorbed by Activity developers? Perhaps with a bit of developer elbow-grease we can eliminate the crutch of the popup-menu from every (Fructose) Activity? > Thanks, > > Tomeu Martin 1. http://dimeb.informatik.uni-bremen.de/documents/Sugar-Not_necessarily_unhealthy.pdf My favourite "use out of context for bashing-the-UI-design" quote is: "Every-time the Frame appeared, which happened mostly unintentional, the children were irritated and one girl even [got] a little bit angry and started to swear." 2. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-October/020209.html
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