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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#4297: What does the buttons on the left side of kscd
From:       Michael Reiher <michael.reiher () gmx ! de>
Date:       2000-05-31 13:37:05
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Dirk Foersterling wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 2000-05-30 Linux QA (linuxqa@corel.com) wrote:
> > Package : kscd
> > Version : 1.2.7 (KDE 2.0pre)
> > Severity : normal
> >
> > The GUI should help the user to understand precisely and quickly the
> > signification of a button but for kscd it is not the case.  The buttons
> > for Cycle Time Display, The Artist on the Web, Quit kscd, CDDB Dialog,
> > and Shuffle play
> 
> ... random play in the first place ...
> 
> > should be replaced with something that allows the user
> > to catch on the first time he uses it.
> 
> Hmm, well. I should think about this being a _bug_.
> 
> However, are there any suggestions on how the cddb, quit and random play
> buttons should look like?
> I didn't hear of any user having a problem recognizing for example the
> random play button so far. There's a question mark (don't know what song
> played next) and a small version of the usual 'play' arrow. What's the
> problem with this? What does a new kscd user think the button is for?
> Is it too small? Should it be text? Doesn't the tooltip tell the
> truth?
> 
> You don't mention the Configure button. Are new users recognizing this
> button correctly?
> 
> Please note that you have about 16x16 pixels to design the button,
> preferrably in a two color format.
> 
>   -dirk
This was discussed already a few times before. I think these buttons are indeed
hard to recognize. What´s ok are the buttons on the right like Play, Stop and
so on, because that are very common symbols. You have them on most real world
cd, cassette, whatever players. But all the other buttons are very uncommon and
thus hard to understand. I use the cd player only from time to time. And each
time I actively have to think what the symbols mean. Sure if you have a close
look at them you can understand what they mean but not automatically. For
instance the Exit button. At beginning I always thought the 1 and 0 right to
what´s supposed to be a switch were a little key. It just looked like that on
the first look, though it made no sense. Until one day I discovered what is
really is.

IMO kscd should have per default a KDE standards compatible layout. This means
all options should be also accessible through menu items. Only the very common
buttons like Play, Stop and so on should be displayed. Of course it could be
configurable to make it look the way it currently looks or use skins. Perhaps
it might be possible to integrate it into a common KDE media player?

Greets

Michael

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Michael Reiher                                    :  michael.reiher@gmx.de
Student of Computer Science at TU Dresden/Germany : mr23@inf.tu-dresden.de
KDE Developer                                     :         reiher@kde.org

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