On 11/6/07, Radomir Dopieralski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 05:05:44PM -0500: > > Here is a mockup; it shows the way, I envision the visual appearance > > of our next release . > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Artwork/Gutsy/Incoming > > There is no process list. Personally I'm doing perfectly fine navigating > using a large pager plugin, and maybe iconbox for minimized applications, > but I'm afraid users used to the windows/gnome/kde/icewm/default xubuntu > settings could be confused and pretty helpless. If you plan to have the > iconbox show all the aplications all the time, then think about resizing > the panel every time you start/close an application/window and how this > will affect slow computers. This needs testing on real users. > > > Notice the themed panel. It is medium gray, from the usability point > > of view make more sense than using the contrasty white. It provides a > > more appropriate background for the application launchers. > > Excuse me, but I'm getting chills down my spine when someone is talking > about "usability point of view" like this. Could you please explain how > medium gray panel makes more sense? How the background is more apropriate? > I always thought we are conditioned to read and watch pictures on white > background, mostly because the omnipresent books and other paper.
Did you notice that when reading a black text on a white monitor after a while you start seeing double? Contrasting and complementary colors cause afterimage, which strains the eye. Not a very pleasant feeling. I wrote an article about afterimage in my blog some time ago. Also it is a psychological fact that white has a tendency to wash out colors while neutrals make them appear more saturated. > > > As the ubuntu people said, Hardy would be all about polish and usability. > > That's good, I'm Polish! :) > > > 4) Take out the icon label backgrounds. They are distracting and are > > usability anomalies. And ugly too. > > How? Can you explain this in more detail? I never noticed any problems > with them. What I meant was that the background is redundant. It is the icon (the image) what is the center of interest where I get the clues and the messages from. In the visual hierarchy the label is secondary component. Competing elements causes confusion because they are distracting. > > By the way, please don't take this as criticism, I think you are really > doing an excellent job and are improving from release to release > considerably. I hope to help at least by playing the devil's advocate. > > -- > Radomir `The Sheep' Dopieralski <http://sheep.art.pl> > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ <www.asciiribbon.org> - against proprietary attachments > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > -- http://jozmak.blogspot.com/ -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
