> On Sep 17, 2006, at 3:21 AM, Nate Nielsen wrote: First off, thanks for the review of the dialogs. I've put most of your suggestions into seahorse today. Sorry for the delay. It's been a hectic week for me.
A few comments... > The icon doesn't make the dialog any more understandable, consumes > horizontal space, and makes the dialog look like an alert when it > isn't. I suggest removing it. (Too many Gnome dialogs have unhelpful > icons.) Probably true, but in this case I think it provides continuity with the previous dialog where the user chose a key type. I've removed the icon in the upload dialog. > > If there is already a computer you want to use this key with, you can > set up that computer to recognize your key now. > > (Just Create the Key) ( Cancel ) ((Create and Set Up...)) I've made this change, but too bad it looks *so* ugly with the buttons all the same size and taking up the whole bottom of the dialog like a bumper of a car :( I guess usability and good looks are sometimes mutually exclusive. > And there's another unhelpful icon. Kill! Kill! :-) Done. > Second, if it wasn't for the ":", I'd be at a loss for what I should > enter in the "Computer" field. I guess many people won't understand > the significance of ":", but nor would they know terms like > "hostname", so I think the best way to help here is to provide an > example under the field. I've removed the 'port' entry all together. It's really a corner case to connect to an SSH server that's not on port 22. And anyone who's needs the nonstandard port can type the :XXX bit on the end of the host name similar to how do you do it in a browser. > I hope all this is helpful. Yes. Thank you. Nate Nielsen _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
