From kde-core-devel Tue Apr 23 00:09:49 2002 From: Torsten Rahn Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:09:49 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: FontInstaller (Was: Gnome Article on UI Design on /.) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=101955252210095 Am Montag, 22. April 2002 22:13 schrieb Waldo Bastian: > On Monday 22 April 2002 12:45 pm, Thomas Diehl wrote: > > Am Montag, 22. April 2002 21:25 schrieb Waldo Bastian: > > > What is the point of the advanced GUI? I mean, there is something t= o The original point was that having two listviews next to each other is pr= etty=20 confusing. The common user actually will have difficulties to get the ide= a=20 behind the dialog. He has got to=20 - realize that he has got to press a button on the left to install some f= onts=20 into the right listview. - and that they will appear on the right listview afterwards. - and he has got to realize that the fonts that he "installs to the=20 directories on the right side" are actually those fonts that are used by = the=20 system (This fact is written exactly nowhere). I'm sure that the original idea which I proposed for the "basic mode"=20 consisted of only one listview which lists the installed fonts not groupe= d at=20 all. You would have an install button which makes a "File Open" dialog be= ing=20 opened. Actually you can see dialogs which look like the proposed basic mode in a= lot=20 of other kcontrol-dialogs: It works this way in the icontheme-dialog, in = the=20 theme-manager, color-dialog, Systemnotification, etc. The advantage is t= hat=20 this type of dialog is more consistent with the rest of KDE and it's a mo= re=20 linear approach. In addition he will be confused by words like "Truetype" and "Type1". Ok,= =20 there might be some people who know about "Truetype"-fonts (although my D= ad=20 doesn't know anything about them - he just knows that he has got some fon= ts=20 installed on his notebook - He doesn't need to know more because he's nei= ther=20 an artist nor a DTP pro. Knowing the explicit name of the format is=20 information that is not only redundant but also confusing -- If he had to= use=20 KDE I'm pretty sure that he would phone me just to know what "Truetype" m= eans=20 and if choosing it would be a bad decision.) I'm also quite sure that I didn't propose to hide the "basic/advanced" sw= itch=20 on a tab behind this dialog. > Hm.. I guess the advanced mode needs to have a "make directory" button = as > well then and some way to move fonts from one dir to another. Would ctr= l-x > / ctrl-v suffice for that? That would be a rather hidden option since a > control module doesn't have a menu. a file-open-dialog doesn't have a menu as well. I'd suggest to steal some= =20 ideas (using toolbarbuttons etc.) from there. Greets, Tackat > Cheers, > Waldo --=20 Dipl.-Phys. Torsten Rahn=20 KDE - Conquer Your Desktop! http://www.kde.org