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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KCron prototype
From:       Eric E <whalesuit () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-03-04 21:42:20
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Following the estimable Mr. Aaron J. Seigo:
> and then i thought ... what if they don't have designer or qt3 or .... ?
> here's a snapshot of that layout in action ... taken using ksnapshot ...

Here's a couple snapshots of the ui I knocked together for KCron.

Cheers,

EE

On Friday 01 March 2002 12:49 pm, Eric E wrote:
> 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.
>       + There's also clearly a screen real-estate problem here.  The layout 
I
> have works fine under 1024x768, but may be problematic under 640x480. 
> Anyone care to comment?
>       + 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

["kcron_ui_b.png" (image/png)]
["kcron_ui_a.png" (image/png)]
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