Your message with subj: usability Thank you for your bug report. The feature that you requested has been implemented in the latest development (CVS) version of KDE. The feature request will be closed. has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I'm talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Stephan Kulow (administrator, KDE bugs database) Received: (at bugs) by bugs.kde.org; 26 Sep 2001 14:43:59 +0000 Received: (qmail 5465 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2001 14:43:58 -0000 Received: from nl-bor-fw-01.microweb.nl (HELO intranet.microweb.nl) (195.18.89.26) by max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de with SMTP; 26 Sep 2001 14:43:58 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by intranet.microweb.nl (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f8QEhoC14157 for bugs@bugs.kde.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:43:50 +0200 Received: from duvel.cafe.microweb.nl (duvel.cafe.microweb.nl [192.168.2.3]) by intranet.microweb.nl (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8QEhnl14117 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:43:50 +0200 Received: (from zander@localhost) by duvel.cafe.microweb.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f8QEfG600848 for bugs@bugs.kde.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:41:16 +0200 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:41:16 +0200 From: Thomas Zander To: bugs@bugs.kde.org Subject: usability Message-ID: <20010926164116.A712@microweb.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.6 for Microweb Technology N.V. X-Spam-Rating: max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de 300/1000/N package: noatun Hi, as we talked about the usability of Noatun some time ago on the kde-core-devel list, I promised to make suggestions as to the usability issues we now have in Noatun. Here is one on the configuration dialog of Noatun. Config dialog; it uses a OK, Apply and a Close button. The OK and the Close are effectively the same and users will expect the button where the Close is to be a Cancel, so the current config confuses users. Please change the Close to be a Cancel button with full functionality that fits ;) Also OK-ing (or Applying) the dialog should save the config to file immidiately so when I change the options to allow only one instance of Noatun I should not have to close Noatun to get these options to work. Which is the case with my KDE 2.2.1 Further it is not natural to have to apply the changes for the plugins-options to apprear in the list on the left. I suggest using an OK action which actively adds a plugin. This ok-action will then add the config option to the list immidiately. A combo with an explenation and an OK button at the bottom not unlike the top part of the new (not yet available in KDE221) effects dialog comes to mind. In the plugins page, tab Playlist the entries are selectable with a radio-button the radio button is however not activated when the name just right of the radio button is clicked. The same page; when changing playlist it is good to warn the user that the new playlist uses another list and that the user will loose the current list when changing. Something like 'Changing playlist plugin will loose your current playlist and playback will stop' Best thing would naturally be that changing does not effect the list. In the Young Hickory (who made up that name!) screen please change the groupbox to have a name, something like 'state icon' Then the options can be shorter; - Blink - Show current - No icon Hope that helps! -- Thomas Zander zander@microweb.nl The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia