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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Configure Desktop Background
From:       John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-05-23 4:55:35
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On Wednesday 22 May 2002 9:45, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On May 22, 2002 07:15 pm, John Firebaugh wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 May 2002 12:59, John Firebaugh wrote:
> > > This weekend I will try to get a working mock of my idea, using
> > > QWidgetStack.
> >
> > Well, I couldn't wait. Here is a working mock up of the best solution,
> > IMHO. I think so because:
>
> the individual layouts need work. e.g. the single colour mode has that one
> lonely colour setting. it looks sort of out of place ;-)

Yes, I agree. It's one of the disadvantages of the design.

> i'm still concerned about multiple widgets that control the same setting
> (e.g. colours) ... at least now they aren't all visible at the same time.
> it would be nice if they remained in the same general position however,
> since that would help people learn what they do... maybe..
>
> i couldn't really test too much since the resulting binary likes to
> segfault on me :-/

Eric reported the same. Strangely, it doesn't happen to me. I'm not running 
qt-copy; perhaps that makes a difference. Can you send a backtrace?

> but it is deffinitely another option... we need to get some users in front
> of the current dialog, your new design and the reinterp of SadEagle's
> layout that i've done and see exactly how people interact with it... i
> could probably do this with a small handful of average users... can anyone
> else throw a few people at this and observe how they use the variations?

Agreed. A little testing will go a long way here.

-John
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