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Subject: [KDE Usability] Re: Display Management Design
From: todd rme <toddrme2178 () gmail ! com>
Date: 2011-07-29 15:20:09
Message-ID: CADb7s=u5VMbSGXfvpDxqswh4BD6PYKfsX5hgyUno7=TLYfuv2A () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Lukas <1lukas1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something like this? Looks a bit off, but might be someone else could figure
> what exactly :)
>
> https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1A7bdmsLBE_oeRZPHxZNMBVAxMQZCkQIclWOrd2mRLGs/edit?hl=en_US
Close. A few things:
I would move the list of activities to the top right, using a drop-down list.
> For the controls (rotate, re size, arrow), are they displayed on mouse over
> or always?
Always. Because of how other interfaces work on past experience,
users are unlikely to try to interact with the screens unless they
have some clear indicitation that they should
> Also how would this layout perform using clone mode? One display would be
> below and unelectable. Unless then overlapping, some popup could came up and
> let user to select display in the background.
If they are different sizes, the smaller one would be on top always.
Otherwise it would probably show as a "clone display" rather than
showing the individual displays.
> Does anyone use Gimp/photoshop/Inkscape/etc? How does image editors deals
> with layers behind?
Usually they are not identical in size and shape.
-Todd
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