On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Don Scorgie wrote: > Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:18:58 +0000 > From: Don Scorgie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: Doc Devel List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Usability] Yelp usability issues > > Hi, > > Currently we're trying to clean up yelp bugs in bugzilla a little. In > there, there are 2 bugs that require input from a usability perspective. > [1] [2]. > > These are: > 1. Should the items in the left-hand side panel of a document > auto-expand?
Not sure how this is really a Yelp issue, and keynav seems more like of an accessibility issue than a usability issue (bit it is a grey area). The bug report seems to describe list navigation behaviour which should be decided in GTK in a standard way not decided by an individual application. Arent' tree list supposed to expand when you hit right arrow? (It is interesting though that the user expected + to exand it too, understanable given how a + icon is used in some themes.) (I read the report as best I can but there may be subtleties I'm missing here but I'm a bit short of time to look into it properly and I hope no one is depending on my humble decidely *non-expert* opinion.) Despite Shauns belief people read through the documentation I can say I only dip into the manual selectively skim reading as a last resort (usually I get stuck asking questions about the usability of the application and why I would even need to read the manual) and spend as little time as possible reading documentation so I can get on with whatever it was I was really trying to do. Ideally having more hyperlinks and search (finally!) it will be even easier to jump around documentation in an entirely non-linear fashion. > 2. Should pressing / activate find (as well as pressing ctrl-F)? I'd leave this entirely up to the discretion of the developers. Keep in mind however Ctrl+F will always need to be the primary keybinding and only viewer applications will be able to use slash '/' (as opposed editor applications) and at best it can only ever be an optional extra. Maybe it is something which could be included with the optional emacs style keybindings? > Any comments would be welcome. Random comments/question: is there a program which views help like Yelp and allows you to edit docbook like gedit? Something like Mozilla Composer but for Docbook? Anychance Yelp could be made faster, my old hardware suffers greatly if I try to run Yelp (and no upgrading really is not cheap or easy but I do accept donations). - Alan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
