[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KCron prototype
From:       Eric E <whalesuit () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-02-28 23:39:29
[Download RAW message or body]

Ok all, I had a crack at a prototype for adding a KCron job.
I chose to set up the times similar to printing dialog boxes, rather than 
messing around with repeated checking of boxes or lists.  Let me know what 
you think of this.  Other ideas would be using the current button and check 
box based layout, or a set of questions and combo boxes.

Some notes and ideas:
	+Advanced Options buttons would hide all below that, and their text would 
change to Normal Options.
	+The Advanced Options button on the Schedule page should be where the Months 
box is, but I didn't want to put widgets on top of each other.
	+ Presumably all the Advanced Options stuff can be done later, when someone 
finds time.
	+If we came up with a list of Common Task categories, like:
		Backups & File Operations
		KDE-specific tasks
		KDE maintenance tasks
			Cleaning cache
			Delete orphaned files
			Check configurations ***
		System maintenance tasks	
	the We could run a little wizard and/or fill in the right entries.
	+ The bottom text box should parse the crontab entry and display it as a 
sentence
	The bottom button titles should change to "Update this task" and "Discard 
these changes".
	+ More information for the Weekdays box in Schedule would explain that if you 
use weekdays together with days of the month, the task will run at both 
times.  This is sort of unclear at the outset
	+ The Test It button will run the command as it would be invoked by crond, 
with the same environment settings and all, and return the output in a little 
message window with OK at the end.

If nobody can find the KCron developer after a few months, perhaps I'll teach 
myself some KDE programming by doing this one myself.

Cheers,

Eric



On Thursday 28 February 2002 12:21 pm, Jennifer E Jobst wrote:
> Not I, since I don't have the programming knowledge to do it. I was merely
> knocking around some redesign ideas and thought I'd see if anyone has any
> input. I never contacted the KCron developer to get his take on it since
> nobody on this list had any comments. But feel free to take it and run,
> though I think getting some more input would probably be a good idea...
>
> -j
>
> Jennifer E. Jobst
> Linux Information Development
> IBM Linux Technology Services
> (512) 838-8298, T/L 678-8298
>
>
>
>
>                       Benjamin Meyer
>                       <icefox@mediaone.net>        To:      
> kde-usability@mail.kde.org Sent by:                     cc:
>                       kde-usability-admin@m        Subject:  Re: KCron
> prototype ail.kde.org
>
>
>                       02/28/2002 06:48 AM
>                       Please respond to
>                       kde-usability
>
>
>
>
>
> Did anyone impliment this?
>
> -Ben
>
> On Thursday 24 January 2002 03:30 pm, Jennifer E Jobst wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here's the redesigned UI prototype for KCron (see the Sev 1 usability bug
> > in the KCron report to see what I'm trying to fix). I did 2 versions of
>
> the
>
> > prototype, and I like v2 better. You'll need Qt Designer to view the
> > prototypes, and they really don't *do* anything (e.g. the menus don't
>
> work,
>
> > and there's no back end - the information you see is all bogus) - they're
> > just supposed to give an idea of how the UI might look and function.
> >
> > Thoughts? Sugs? Ideas?
> >
> > -j
> >
> > (See attached file: kcron_prototype_v1.ui)(See attached file:
> > kcron_prototype_v2.ui)
> >
> > PS. For v2, clicking the columns across the top would organize that
> > column's entries in alphabetical order. For example, clicking on the User
> > column would display all the values for tasks and variables alphabetical
>
> by
>
> > user.
>
> _______________________________________________
> kde-usability mailing list
> kde-usability@mail.kde.org
> http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> kde-usability mailing list
> kde-usability@mail.kde.org
> http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability


["kcron_job.ui" (application/x-designer)]
_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

_______________________________________________
kde-usability mailing list
kde-usability@mail.kde.org
http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]