On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:34 AM, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:33 PM, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I just tried the new changeset e24dd34219bc. While it seem more >>>> helpful than tooltips, I am afraid it made the dialog look really odd >>>> to me, and even (pardon me) somewhat ugly. >>>> >>>> I don't know if this is best way to handle this. For now, I'd feel >>>> perhaps it would look better if locate within the notebook page, right >>>> on top of the option areas. >>> >>> You can't really put it at the top because the description >>> sizes vary so much (it makes everything bounce around). >>> >>> And putting it directly below the options just looks strange, so I >>> compromised and put it at the bottom of each notebook page. >>> Even this isn't without side-effects as two of the fields on the web >>> tab can cause render overdraws, >>> >>> I'm open to other ideas on how to do this, but I do want the text >>> visible. No-one reads tooltips if they can avoid it. >> >> What about making the dialog geometry more square and putting >> the description frame to the left of the option list? > > Having given it more thought, I don't really feel that it's quite > redundant, apart from the cosmetic issue. In most, if not all, cases, > users only need to learn about an option once, since it's not hard at > all to remember what the option is meant for once we learn about it. > This is what the tooltips is good for - providing the info if needed, > but doesn't take up the space or disrupt the layout of the GUI. > > If there's really any concern about clarify, maybe a help button that > bring up the help doc like some apps do will be better. That way we > will have more flexibility. > > On a remotely related topic, we are going to have to trust the users > on their ability and responsibility to learn. It's not all that > different from learning the CLI of mercurial. To me, making the GUI > more elegant and intuitive is more important that worrying that user > can't remember the purpose of the the text box, checkbox, etc. > > It's your call. These are just my 2-cent.
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