From kde-usability Sun May 30 16:27:30 2004 From: "Jamethiel Knorth" Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 16:27:30 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: New File Selection Dialogs Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=108593448704730 >From: "Art Carney" >Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 09:32:58 -0400 > >On Sun, 30 May 2004 00:14:43 -0400, Jamethiel Knorth > wrote: > >>I have put together designs for a new set of file dialogs. They're not >>massively different, but there are a lot of changes. The good version is >>at: >> >>http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~abreschm/designs/file_selector/index.html >> >>and a short version is at: >> >>http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~abreschm/designs/file_selector/short.html >> >>and some background on what other file dialogs do is at: >> >>http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~abreschm/designs/file_selector/background.html >> >>Check it over. There are issues, even some that I can see in a quick >>review. This was prompted by the mock-ups I was making for my searching >>idea. >> >>The main changes would be: >> >>* New quick-access panel >> - Search bar >> - Dynamic devices list >> - Dynamic list of recent locations >> - New bookmark system >>* Better configuration system >>* Better preview field >> - Show large icons, rather than blanks for many files >> - Show metadata information >>* Rearrangement of many control buttons. >> >>In general, I think this design would be cleaner and more usable than the >>old one. >> >>As always, this is only a set of mock-ups, I can't program that well. I'm >>going to send this off the core-devel at some point, after some >>suggestions here. >> >> >> >>Does anyone know the deadlines for 3.3? If they aren't too far off, I'll >>try to wait until after 3.3 is finished up, since this is really the sort >>of change that would only go in for KDE 4. >> > > >The left panel is too verbose. It needs at least some separators to >distinguish between the very different items of searching, mount points, >and recent locations. I'll see about putting horizontal lines in between each section, like the panel in OS-X. >Also, the way you have it now, the recent locations cannot be read at a >glance and must be clicked on. Instead, you should put a label, in small >text, above the recent locations which says "Recent Places," then remove >the Recent Location prefix which currently is on every single item. Those aren't prefixes, I just didn't come up with real names for the directories in the mock-up. The entry would just say the name of the directory. >I would put labels on each of the three categories just to make it easier >for the user. I don't see where labels would help very much. Could you explain? _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with the new version of MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability