> > > > What little things like that annoy you, or took you a while to get used to?
There's quite a bit of "mystery meat" going on, which takes time to learn. For example, the icons bottom left, will benefit from text underneath them. (Yes, you can hover over them and wait for a few seconds to see a tool tip, but that is only uncovering half of the mystery, the other half is unveiled after clicking them). I've also noticed new user's becoming confused finding stuff through the presets - the icons of what they are should be augmented by text. Trial and error to know that the amenity=pub can be found after repeatedly hitting the icons, and exploring the options until the camera one comes along. At present, you click on an icon, and text list pops up: for those who are new to the interface, it's trial and error to match up several icons with several lists. The left hand icon changes to the next icon upon a click. "Whoops I should have clicked the car one! click, click, click, click...damn I missed it again!" - is a frequent operation, then most people switch to doing tags by hand. The right hand presets opens up a list. Why not have the left hand one open a list too? Keyboard shortcuts. Potlatch has "hidden codes" which do stuff. Hardly anyone has two browser windows open, one showing the keyboard commands, and the other the GUI, although they can tab across. Regardless, they have to train their memory learning the keys, combinations, commands and expected behaviours. A possible solution? Having a cheat-sheet on the same page, or as a pop up message, that opens over the map upon clicking text that says "help". They are not "shortcuts" either, as they are they the only way to perform most operations. I still only use potlatch for basic stuff, as learning these commands requires too much investment (want to do something, click help, tab to wiki page, look for keyboard shortcuts link, open link, search for command, forget what it was I wanted to do, tab back). _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
