> Like I said, these notes come much from observing how they used GNOME. > I think my father was looking for a way to view a slideshow of the > folder. He was in /home/dadsname/Images/<some folder>, right-clicked > on <some folder> and probably expected a "Show a slideshow of this > folder" or something equivalent. Frankly, I have no idea.
Oh, this is still in the image viewer. I thought you meant the ones in nautilus (little button at the bottom left of windows). Maybe he was just checking to see if there were any options hidden under there. I do that sometimes too, and am surprised to find some irritatingly obscure but useful function. > > There's actually a massive delay when the panel is moved to re-locate > > and re-size all of the icons. > > Yes, the problem is that he gets no "outline" as he drags it, like you > get on windows if you drag the bottom "panel" there (what is it called > on Windows again?). Try clicking on the middle of the top panel and > drag the mouse down to the bottom of the screen. You get no visual > indication that you're dragging anything before the panel suddenly > snaps from top to bottom. I meant that the delay is caused by the icons re-sizing. Moving panels also has a much higher threshold. I think you have to be (I'm guessing) PanelWidth*2 close to the edge you want it to move to. There might be a good reason to make this more windows-like, have it be ScreenWidth/2|3 close to the edge and have an outline. Possibly even a little faster. I imagine fixed-width/height panel applets are getting in the way for now, though. > The definition of "panel" is not the problem here. The fact that he > thinks each desktop within the switcher is a seperate entity on the > panel (and thus he should be able to remove only one of them by using > "Remove from panel") is the problem. Oh I see now. In other words, it should be clearer that it's in fact, one solid object instead of four similar looking ones. Hmm, maybe using a darker shade of grey between the panels would fix this? Is there a relevant bug, or would one be unwarranted? > Thanks for taking the time to comment on my random scrabble. It seems > to me you mistunderstood alot of my notes, but that most surely is a > result of them being notes and not something I reviewed with care > before sending to the list. Nah, your notes are fine, I probably mis-read a few of them because I had such a long day. They're still very interesting points. -Jason _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
