On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:45 +0100, David Christian Berg wrote: > Hey Kyle! > > I installed the newest version of Gparted, that can be found in Debian. > It's incredibly hard to test, because you don't know, what happens, once > you did a change. I think the interface needs an "Apply Changes" and a > "Discard Changes" button, that are greyed out, to tell the user, that > the changes made won't be instant apply. > These buttons should at the bottom of a "Changes Pending" list on the > right. > Furthermore the program should always be executed as root and hence ask > for the root password on start up. > As for the interface: I do agree with Alan's remarks, but am going a lot > further. There are many things, I'd instantly change. > First of all: The colours for used and unused. They are way to close to > one another. I can hardly tell them apart on my laptop. There is further > more no use to explain those, because they are self explaining in the > first place. > My suggestion is to use light shades of the colours indicating the > filesystem as background and using the colour of the filesystem for the > used space. That way one can get rid of the frames and still has all of > the information needed. Also decrease the height of the bar. it takes up > a whole lot of space, without any need.
I'm going from screenshots only; I've not had a chance to try on GParted. Although I'd certainly like to. I've got a partition I'd love to resize. In the US, roughly 10% of males have some form of color blindness. I suspect the percentage is comparable in other parts of the world. Usage of color alone as an indicator of vital information makes an application completely non-accessible. And we're not just talking about non-accessible to some small fringe group of people. We're talking about one in every ten men. That group includes me, as well as a number of other Gnome developers. I don't know an ideal solution in this case. With the wide borders I see in the screenshots, different stroke patterns could help. But then, those are really wide borders. For a wonderfully innovative solution to a problem like this, check out the "shapes" ball theme in glines. I didn't do the artistic work to make it happen, but I did do some of the complaining the may have contributed to it. ;-) -- Shaun _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
