Le 20 Août 2004 13:35, Celeste Paul a écrit : > Hi all -- > > This is my first usability review I have written and in hindsight its a bit > long for such a small application. I would appreciate any feedback. > > The url for the pdf file is http://www.obso1337.org/misc/khangman.pdf > > KHangMan is the classic hangman game in the KDE Edutainment package. > > Thanks > > -- Celeste waooo, this is EXCELLENT work. Thanks a lot for the time you spend on this report, this is awesome. I am very glad about the suggestions you make as they are well analysed. I immediately started some work :-) --------- Screenshots I made http://edu.kde.org/khangman/screenshots3.php Here are my first thoughts and first trials for resolving issues. - about popup messages: yes, they are intrusive and the Win Game dialog can be removed as a setting. You say that those message box (when a letter has already been guessed) can be replaced by a warning on the document, I do agree. But where in the document? In the statusbar? (there are 2 message boxes: one when a letter is entered that has already been guessed and one when the game is finished) About the Win/Lose dialog: when it is present, it says: You won/are dead. Do you want to play again? Yes button, No button and No quits the game. You say this is unexpected. How would I do? Put Yes button and Quit button instead of No? Isn't that against KDE guidelines? Any other alternative? Suppressing that dialog with a result dialog can be done with a simple OK button that will return to the game. I can work on that and post a screenshot of it. - shorten the letter lineedit will be done. Please see screenshots to comment on that. - a Guess button besides this lineedit will be added (why didn't I think of that ;-) Please see screenshots to comment on that. Maybe the layout should be modified. Note that the background is wrong at the moment. It''l blend with the background picture soon. - The fonts with Misses, Word: and Letter: should be bigger i.e the same than the letters that are written after. I agree, it will be done. Please see screenshots to comment on that. - Background theme and font color: I am not sure what to do but I tried white fonts for the Blue Theme. See screenshot 4. - the Full Screen mode will go (easy to do) as it was for low resolution monitors but there's no real point to it, I agree. - about the default language: the default language should be the user's one is implemented already (version 1.4). This must be tested again to see if it works well. In v 1.4, only English and the user language are installed by default. All available languages data are in the corresponding i18 module. If the user is Slovenian for example and uses KDE in SLovenian, KHangMan should open with the slovenian data. English data is also installed and can be selected from the Languages menu. Other languages data are available from download and immedialte installation via Game -> Get Data in New Language. If the user is CHinese for example, as I don't have Chinese data yet, only English will be present and other available languages via Get Data In New Language. - the levels are not present in the menubar, all settings present in the toolbar should be present as well in the menubar: do all people agree on that? If so, this is something we should improve in several others kde-edu app. I agree on that. Will a Level menu do it? Derived point: the Animals level is confusing, you say. This was suggested by several children in fact as they are attracted to animals and found it easier to have a special set of words for them. I am not sure about what to do here. the background settings are also in the toolbar but NOT in the menubar (in the toolbar there is a combobox with No Background, Blue Theme and Nature Theme). Can I add this in the Settings menu -> Configure KHangMan -> a new Background tab? Any comments are welcome. I'd like to post a link to the report on the KHangMan webpage if this is OK with you. I am very glad about this work and the discussion it'll trigger, this is exactly what usability should be in my opinion. I would like to see this report as a template for future studies. Thanks a lot Paul, you made a high quality report and I'll follow your suggestions the best I can to improve KHangMan! Thanks for any help in the points I asked about, Anne-Marie _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability