Hi, On Thu, October 20, 2005 00:35, Manu Cornet wrote: > I have been working on a new version of the "add to panel" dialog, for > the Ubuntu distro. This dialog is already available by default in the > new Ubuntu "Breezy Badger" version.
People might be interested in reading Calum's posts about this dialog: http://blogs.gnome.org/view/calum/2005/08/16/0 http://blogs.gnome.org/view/calum/2005/09/20/1 [...] > * Applets are organized into categories. I'm not sure whether categories are good or not: it's really hard to get them right since applets do not easily fall in one and only one category. > * Selected applet's description appears below the canvas. As others have said, a tooltip might be better. > The problem is that of long applet names. Here it is : in the canvas > layout, the vertical distance between an icon and the one directly under > it is determined by the largest number of text lines in the applet > names. Meaning : if all applet names fit in one or two lines of text, > everything is fine. Now if just one applet's name takes four lines of > text, all applets are spread too far apart (certically). Hope I'm not > too hard to understand :) So here are the solutions I see : Screenshot to illustrate the problem: http://tmp.vuntz.net/Capture-Ajouter%20au%20tableau%20de%20bord.png I'm okay with this new dialog, but I'm wondering if an improved version of the current dialog could be a good choice. By improved, I mean: smaller icons, no big text (but we keep the bold), search functions as in Manu's proposition, etc. I don't know. Anyway, I want to thank Manu for his efforts to improve this dialog! Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
