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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Some thoughts on toolbars in KDE
From:       "Jos Poortvliet" <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-10-12 10:56:49
Message-ID: 5c77e14b0710120356v6019d5d8wc36239e993707dc8 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 10/12/07, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@acm.org> wrote:
> Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> > (sorry, a bit late in to the conversation...)
> >
> > I don't know if the combo box design will work.. there is no affordance that
> > suggests you can edit the value.  How will a user know to click the text area
> > to activate the combo box and add a new value?
>
> How does a user know that they can edit the value in a combo box? :-)

There are clearly editable comboboxes, right? Like the one currently
used for zooming - you can click and enter a value... See screenshot
for such one on the left, compared to a normal one on the right.

> The small window would look exactly like a combo box except that it
> wouldn't have the buttons.  If it was editable, it wouldn't look like
> the zoom widget that JP was talking about.

Hans' work could be changed to show the editable combobox on mouseover
already, instead of only when you click as in his mockup:
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/7440/widgetek9.png

Wouldn't that be the perfect widget?

I don't really get how your proposal would look from the email you
send, a more clear mockup like hans' would be cool, btw...

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