From kde-panel-devel Sat Dec 31 08:44:15 2011 From: "Aaron J. Seigo" Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:44:15 +0000 To: kde-panel-devel Subject: Re: Kickoff w/Breadcrumbs in QML Message-Id: <1538272.QuoJphvK7O () freedom> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-panel-devel&m=132532120730626 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============2194442774200724691==" --===============2194442774200724691== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5805837.sMg8a6FWzJ"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit --nextPart5805837.sMg8a6FWzJ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" On Friday, December 23, 2011 13:15:22 Xavier Sythe wrote: > Just to confirm, does the QML Kickoff still have keyboard navigation? > I think that it would be a good idea to not only add support for a mouse's > back button, but also the standard backspace key on keyboards. > This would enable full navigation of Kickoff solely with the keyboard, a > feature which, until now, has been limited by the lack of a back button > shortcut. yes, it should be fully keyboard navigable. and btw, i'm tired of these discussions of the back button. if they are continuing in a week from now without being accompanied by patches to Martin's QML branch, i will start moderating the list to weed them out. :) > As for the UI back button, Novell's usability team did determine that it > was needed. > Who are we, as non-UX professionals, to argue against this decision? *sigh* so, while not a UX professional in terms of having a degree behind it, i have what i like to think of as a reasonable amount of experience in these matters. i could point out a few things in Active, for instance, that would be different had i not weighed in, with reasons provided, with adjustments that went against the original UX pro's recommendations which, upon user testing, turned out better. i'm not a noob, and there are others here with increasing skills in this area as well. furthermore, this study was done some years ago. these trends shift (see the impact the web has had on UIs in general in the last 5-8 years, or mobile in the last 2-3). and there is often more than one good answer. while i love research and reallye njoy working with UX people, i also dislike the concept that they are untouchable high priests of the UI. in fact, i often find UX people have a blind spot for aesthetics and an emphasis on the theoretical over the practical. so ... everything with moderation. > included in Plasma by default. Available from KDE-Look, certainly, but > KDE3's days were long ago. we have people asking for it, and it's a feature we can add easily enough. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks --nextPart5805837.sMg8a6FWzJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk7+y18ACgkQ1rcusafx20P/kgCgklC69NJ0PJBLWma65Vj1gu+r E5wAnizkevwSjh0QyRw2KQT2xEnZfSsB =+2ej -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5805837.sMg8a6FWzJ-- --===============2194442774200724691== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel --===============2194442774200724691==--