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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: New File Selection Dialogs
From:       "Jamethiel Knorth" <jamethknorth () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2004-05-30 16:27:30
Message-ID: BAY7-F118QU2FBgUtdU00049364 () hotmail ! com
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>From: "Art Carney" <greencarrots@nospammail.net>
>Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 09:32:58 -0400
>
>On Sun, 30 May 2004 00:14:43 -0400, Jamethiel Knorth  
><jamethknorth@hotmail.com> 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?

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