On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:20:16 +0100 (BST) > From: Joachim Noreiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Gnome usability <[email protected]> > Subject: [Usability] Panel applet interface > > While we're on the subject of the panel and its > applets, I've noticed some discrepancies in their > interface. > > For most things I've tried adding to the panel, a > click on the icon produces some sort of action: a > window is opened, or something pops down from the > panel, eg volume slider or calendar > A right-click produces a menu that has options > specific to the applet followed by some standard > commands relating to managing the applet's place on > the panel. > > I've found two so far that don't do anything when > clicked: > Sticky Notes needs a double-click to create a new > note.
I agree it should do something but the first click might actually already be doing something like making sure sticky notes are not hidden but it might not be clear (sorry cannot check it myself right now). > Modem Monitor appears to do nothing at all when > clicked. > > Another point is the Tomboy applet. (I think this is > fantastic, by the way :) I'm conflicted by Tomboy. For me it falls halfway between Gedit and Sticky Notes and I'd prefer to see existing applications improved but Tomboy is impressive none-the-less. > This has one menu for a click, and another for > right-click. > I'm not sure that a single object producing two menus > according to how it's clicked is good usability. What > do you all think? Sounds good. If you follow up on this I expect developers could be convinced to standardise things a little more. I've noticed the drive mount applet in Ubuntu also has two menus both a right click and single click. (I'd rather not have to mount the drive manually at all but) the icons for each drive are extremely simlar and the inability to quickly distinguish makes the applet horribly slow to use. > PS. My emails to various gnome lists go straight to my > junk folder when I receive a copy back. Is this a > problem with what I'm sending? I doubt it, you dont seem to be using HTML email. Chances are your anti-spam software sees the list mail is marked with the Bulk precendence and combined with the standard junk which gets appended to most emails you are getting a false positive. Training your system with ham/spam might help or whitelisting certain addresses. In fact the most likely answer is your system might not be expecting you to be sending email to yourself and counting the copies as spam. Hope that helps. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
