On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Calum Benson wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:00:08 +0100 > From: Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Travis Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Usability] Alacarte UI > > > On 25 Apr 2006, at 22:24, Travis Watkins wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The current alacarte UI [1] mixes application and dialog interfaces.
> > I'd like to make it a dialog but that seems to make adding features > > like undo/redo and cut/copy/paste impossible. As Joachim mentioned user will usually expect Undo, Copy, Cut, paste to work so you could put them in without necessarily providing buttons for all of them. The discoverability is not as good but we allow cut and paste into a text entry without always providing buttons to let users know it is there. Argueably you could have your list without providing up/down buttons and have users rely on drag and drop or whatever the standard keybindings are for moving list items (if there are any?), rather than having all that dead space on the side because of those buttons. > > There is just no where to put the buttons for all that. To make it an > > application I'd have to drop the bottom row of buttons and add a > > toolbar. > > I'm not sure that you'd /need/ to add a toolbar... it's not a > prerequisite for an application to have a toolbar. It would probably > be fine just to drop the three dialog buttons, and make sure all the > functions were available on the menus. Revert isn't (or wasn't) in the menus, I meant to try provide a patch rather than filing yet another bug report but I hadn't gotten around to it yet. Although I doubt anyone would be doing so much menu editing that they would really need keybindings for faster access I was also thinking about providing keybindings like Ctrl+N for new items and Ctrl+Shift+N for new folder/submenu and maybe a keybinding for instert seperator (if I recall correctly this would be consistent with the bookmarks manager in Mozilla/Konqueror and the Kde menu editor). Sincerely Alan Horkan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
