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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [kopete-devel] Re: Bug 84638
From:       Richard Smith <kde () metafoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2004-07-26 14:48:41
Message-ID: 200407261548.41696.kde () metafoo ! co ! uk
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On Monday 26 July 2004 2:44 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 26 July 2004 05:12, Richard Smith wrote:
> > OK, so tell me this: when you expand a metacontact, should the contact
> > icons disappear from beside the MC?
>
> most probably, yes.
>
> > If they do, this will surprise the user ("where did my icons go?")
> > If they don't, this will surprise the user ("what's the difference
> > between these icons and these list items?")
>
> is this based on data or your "best guess"?

It's my best guess. Usually, with tree lists, there's no way to see the child 
items of an item without expanding it. Usually, a parent item is unaffected 
by showing / hiding its children. This is different, hence I think it will 
cause surprise. But I don't think that necessarily makes it a bad choice 
usability-wise.

> if the protocols shown below have the SAME icons (which they would of
> course) in the SAME order (though now vertically as opposed to
> horizontally, of course), i wouldn't be surprised to find people putting 2
> and 2 together and connect the now-gone icons with the now-visible line
> entries.

It's possible we could do one better and have an animation of the icons moving 
over :)

> it would be easy enough to test this if it hits CVS, which i'd be willing
> to do.

It should be easy enough to implement this, too :)

> once learned, it's great, aside from the fact you need rather good mouse
> control to get those little guys ;-)

Making sure their sizes follow the KDE SmallIcon settings is on my TODO.

Richard
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