Hi folks, Sorry for not responding earlier, i've been a bit busy the last few days. Anyway, i have subscribed to the usability list and am ready to talk about gparted usability. I have had a lot of advice already, but most of it was based on outdated screenshots and is/was already included in more recent releases.
What would be the most convenient way to work for you? Should i provide screenshots, a tarball or do you get the latest gparted from CVS yourselves? Don't worry about damaging your partitions. As long as you stay away from 'apply', nothing will happen to your system ;) Outstanding issues (posted by Joachim): - Having the 'apply' and 'cancel' buttons and the device chooser drop-down in the toolbar saves screen space, but it's not the most logical place for them to be. (what would be a more logical place in your opinion? Also note i've added a device selector the the 'gparted' menu) - why not show the bar graphs for all devices together, since they are all scanned on startup? The partition manager on Windows2000 lets you scale them relative to one another. (hmmz, imho this would take up a lot of space and i'm not sure if it would really improve usability (although i must admit i've never used win2000 partitionmanager.) - I'd move the 'Partition' menu further to the left, or perhaps even have it as the first menu. (well, i've followed the HIG in this matter. see http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus.html#menus-menubar) - GParted->Filesystems should probably be under Help (or View?), and the label doesn't make it clear what choosing it will do. (view isn't the right place imo, since those menuitems control the interface (show/hide gui-elements). Good point about the label, maybe i should rename it to 'Filesystem Information'. (although that's a bit long) - Harddisk information is in a sidebar, but partition information has to be summoned in a dialog box. I'd say put both in the sidebar together, with the partition information part updating with the current selection. (Yep, this might be a good idea. I was about the remove the infodialog anyway because it doesn't add much usefull info. In fact, the only info in that dialog which is not in the mainscreen already, is the sectorinfo which would easily fit in the sidebar.) One more thing, someone (i believe it was Alan) proposed to removed the legend. It takes up a lot of space and doesn't add any usefull information. I've tried it already and i really like it, so i'm inclinded to remove it :) Any more comments on this from an usability POV ? Thank you very much, Bart (plors) _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
