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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: fonts control center module improvement
From:       Jeff Snyder <ejs50 () srcf ! ucam ! org>
Date:       2003-06-01 8:54:48
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On Sunday 25 May 2003 20:19, John Levon wrote:
> > But how do one saves the current scheme with a name in your interface
proposal?
>
> I've answered this already as well. There is no explicit saving, the
> changes you make are 'saved' by pressing OK or Cancel.
>
This is A Bad Thing (tm). If i select a predefined scheme and start playing
with the fonts, I want to be able to revert to the original & unmodified
scheme should I not like what i end up with. If pressing ok saves a scheme,
then the originals are lost along the way.

In the colours box, the scheme is saved as 'Current scheme' by clicking on the
ok button, and if I want to make my current scheme into a real/named scheme I
can use the explicit save. [hence] I find the colours panel as it is to be
intuitive and resonably easy to use.

Prehaps moving the grouping boxes and buttons around could impove things, but
the current scheme-save/remove paradigm is better than anything thats been
suggested thus far.

> > Well, leaving aside the fact that the theme manager is not in good shape
> > currently, what if the user feels that the standard user interface is good
as
> > it is, but the fonts are too small/big/the wrong shape for her tastes?
>
> This isn't a use case for font themes. This is a use case for
> *changing the fonts once*. For schemes to be useful, the user will want
> to play with font settings in multiple schemes, *and* change between
> them.

In my experience a user is likely to pick one scheme, tweak it to his/her
tastes, and then leave it alone. This also goes for colour schemes and
complete themes. I personally havnt changed the colour scheme since i
upgraded to kde 3.1.x (switched to keramik), and havnt changed the fonts
since I copied over some MS fonts (and switched to arial).

a big IMHO goes for all the above |grep -v ^>

	- Jeff Snyder
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