I agree that a lower bar for comprehending the workplace-switcher functionality would likely lead to increased usage, but I don't think a splash screen is a very good idea.
I believe adding some descriptive text when the mouse pointer hovers over the applet would greatly increase it's ease-of-use and make the functionality clearer to anyone unfamiliar. I often check two or more workspaces before finding the grouping of windows I am looking for. Having a dialog similar to that in the window-selector applet when one hovers the mouse pointer over each workspace on the applet would make the workplace-switcher app much easier to use, at least in my case. I think this increased amount of information being accessible from the applet itself would also help users experimenting with it grasp what it is doing. My two cents - James Clark On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 12:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's very interesting to thing of switching desktops, as hiding > applications! I've never thought of this because I understood the > idea. > I guess a cool thing to do that would help users is to maybe show a > very > brief 'splash' saying "Welcome to Desktop X" when users switch > desktops. > This would be really great because then it would give users a whole > new > paradigm. I personally love the multiple desktop idea. I even assigned > shortcut keys F1-F4 to correspond switch to desktop 1-4. I find it > easier and way more sane than Alt+Tab. > > So, I say don't remove the desktop switcher, just add the splash > screen > feature and let users in a very cool feature, otherwise they'll never > learn see it (and never learn it). > > -Gezim > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
