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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: menu options in KDE
From:       Jacob Beauregard <jake13jake () comcast ! net>
Date:       2007-04-25 3:45:46
Message-ID: 200704242345.46911.jake13jake () comcast ! net
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Has anyone noticed that this kind of suggestion is already applied to context 
menus for multiple desktops in window lists, and under the K-Menu to separate 
applications and actions? Of course, however, they look a bit different.

On Friday 20 April 2007 06:07:45 pm Jacob Beauregard wrote:
> Hey, Wladimir, I was wondering if you could make more mock-ups for the Menu
> Options with headers instead of separators so I can do a usability study on
> them and hopefully have the results convince the devs otherwise.
>
> If you would be interested in this, could you try to make the new and old
> mockups in separate folders in a tar or zip file?
>
> It would also be nice if you could provide a list describing the
> functionality of each option in the menu mock-up.
>
> The study, I believe, should go like this:
>
> Individuals, one at a time, will be shown the screenshots of the current
> menu. They will be graded on their ability to correctly describe the
> functionality of each option.
>
> Then the individuals will be shown the mock-ups with headers in the menus.
> They will be graded, again, on their ability to correctly describe the
> functionality of each option.
>
> The difference in the grades should reflect the learnability of the
> interface to a user that has had little or no experience with it. I
> hypothesize that using a header to help describe a set of options will give
> scores 50% more than not using a header to help describe a set of options,
> or better.
>
> What does everyone think? Anything I might not be taking into account?
> Before anyone goes out and tries to do this, I'm probably going to work on
> it a bit more.
>
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 05:04:22 am Wladimir Schaefer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was thinking about the chexboxes discussion and there come new
> > cogitations. Let's talk about the view options in KDE, there are several
> > categories of that options:
> >
> > 1. What is to show(is clear)
> > 2. How is it looks like(I mean sizes, sorting, layout, representation)
> > 3. Why is it shown:)), good, we let it by two of them.
> >
> > so: What and How.
> >
> > But there are some more categories:
> >
> > The view of window, toolbars, sidebars, extension bars...I will like to
> > name it - "Interface related options"
> >
> > And the other options - "Content related options", related to a info what
> > you are edit(filelists, text, images...), like a list view modes, size of
> > icons, shown columns, preview... for filemanagement; fonts, background
> > colors, grid, borders, zoom... for text edit; filters, collapse/expand
> > treads, sorting, headers... for emails, and so along. Also is there some
> > options for different window modules in one list(example below).
> >
> > Was it understandable? I type that ideas first time, but I think It's
> > nothing new.
> >
> >
> > And all that is on heap in KDE, that make KDE less consistent and
> > difficult to understand. We have so much features, but they are not all
> > managed to some light differentable groups.
> >
> >
> > Let's take a look at that:
> > <http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kmailviewmenujv8.png>
> >
> > What are you say?
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately, often, there is no way to differentiate a option to just a
> > one category.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > P.S.: sorry for retry, forgot image link. To moderators: please delete my
> > first post.
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