From koffice-devel Fri Nov 08 18:33:39 2002 From: Mike McBride Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 18:33:39 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: KOffice's usability X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=103679892608256 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--Boundary-00=_DOAz9cEdUrwOqeT" --Boundary-00=_DOAz9cEdUrwOqeT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday November 08 2002 11:37 am, Sven Lueppken wrote: > I put usability on top of my personal > TODO list as I would really like to see a cleaned up KOffice 1.3 :) (Yes, > that also means I volunteer to work together with the usability team ;) S= o, > what do you think? I agree, that there are areas in KWord which need some interface=20 work/consistancy. [text deleted....] > the initial document dialog that appears when first starting up a koffice > app has several problems IMHO.. some things that would help it: > > o make "Open a recent document" another tab on "Create document from > template" tab widget > o get rid of "Start with an empty document" and just have that as one of > the templates All of these are good ideas, but I think there is one additional problem wi= th=20 this dialog.....The templates are grouped by whether they are Text oriented= =20 or DTP documents, not based on groupings that make sense to a user. =20 Additionally, as a user, you must search for the template you want AND the= =20 paper size you want for any template to be usable. This is very easy with= =20 our 7 templates, but will become cumbersom when we create additional=20 templates for each paper size. I would suggest the following: 1) At the top of this dialog, is a paper size selction widget (dropdown=20 box/radio buttons, whatever). The default value of this selection would be= =20 based on the localization of the machine (US English =3D letter, Australia = =3D=20 A4, etc). In general, the user would not need to adjust this selector at=20 all--it would just work. If they need to, however, it is available for qui= ck=20 alteration. 2) The templates that fill the dialog box are limited to those templates of= =20 the appropriate paper size. These available templates are listed according= =20 to groupings that make sense to a user (Personal letters, Newsletters,=20 Business reports, etc), not by whether they are text oriented or DTP. 3) To seperate out for the user which templates are DTP and which are text= =20 oriented, would be done with the icon that represents the template. An=20 example would be that the "preview" of the page icon would have letters alo= ng=20 the bottom corner of the icon if it was a text oriented document, and=20 pictures if it was a DTP document template. (An very quick cut and paste=20 version of a Fax template as shown if it was a text oriented document, and= =20 the same document if it was saved as a DTP template are included). This layout makes a lot more sense to a user who will say: "I need to star= t=20 KWord because I want to write a letter to my mom", or "I need to start KWor= d=20 to generate a memo for the department on the new thimble designs...." =20 Very few non developers say: "I need to start KWord so I can used a Text=20 oriented template to write a letter on A4 paper to my mom....." If you need any non-programming help, I will be happy to help (rearrange th= e=20 template directories, create appropriate templates for all sizes of paper,= =20 etc....) =2D-=20 Mike McBride mpmcbride7@yahoo.com KWord documentation writer --Boundary-00=_DOAz9cEdUrwOqeT Content-Type: image/png; name="DTP.png" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="DTP.png" iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAALUAAAEACAMAAADC/cfpAAABjFBMVEX////9/f2rq6vExMT29vbt 7e3T09O8vLzDw8P6+voAAACfn5+srKympqaKiorj4+MNDQ3MzMwrKyuioqLKysrb29tVVVVhYWE5 OTmIiIgXFxdLS0txcXF7e3u/v7/y8vIPDw/k5OQdHR3Pz8/Ozs6QkJDr6+uVlZUcHBxXV1clJSV5 eXn4+Phra2sbGxvp6en7+/sSEhJQUFDFxcU1NTWcnJw4ODhkZGRvb2/m5ubh4eHc3Nzd3d3i4uL+ /v7s7Oy+vr7S0tLHx8fR0dHU1NTv7++kpKS1tbW5ubnCwsL39/fz8/Pf39/5+fng4OC9vb3Z2dnA wMC7u7ujo6O4uLilpaWpqamqqqrNzc2zs7P8/PzX19f19fWoqKiurq60tLSxsbHGxsa3t7fIyMj0 9PTa2trJycnY2NjLy8vW1tbV1dXQ0NCtra3n5+eZmZmPj4+ysrKbm5uwsLCvr6+np6fo6Ojw8PDl 5eXe3t62trbu7u6enp56enpycnJ1dXWGhoZtbW3BwcG6urrx8fHXGPD4AAAAAWJLR0QAiAUdSAAA AAlwSFlzAAALEAAACxABrSO9dQAAAAd0SU1FB9ILCBIfAh2wFtYAAAKJSURBVHic7dpJcoMwFEVR jf/KMsoymGUTWXkwxtjq6fyQ4nurUuVghA4EZA/inLPLc9u7mnzrk9TbR50Xal2odaHWhVoXal2o daHWhVoXal2odaHWhVoXal2odaHWhVoXal2odaHWhVoXal2odaHWhVoXal2odaHWhVoXal2odaHW hVoXal2odaG+b890FLpq/p2jYmKf6mXr9ll2zL9zVObC9ql2faqdBbscuvoydTwy3DE6mfzJadXB m8nlJr/7mvlLHVEXVOHg4lK1gVsdVVXHe+d/zx5Iorbnu4m9s6NX/81Wdpa6yC7AFOrK9PFCMr/c M3+pLeriDPE5LltKrPeow4oHSqitjH73td6urg4pz79vVGLKnCv3l6ij9U+jL00Km7jW8TenCrB+ i0jU+XcLav0aUhiWXZ5ftlXvEaU6/aSmnoLaxW5OPX/ElNmtqZ9fQmrPxwZuddRBtb8kNqqO15RV B7p4DQk3REt5YZYt3tqoTepgiUudUfpQJ6tLU7mQbf6R0rdP8ljnqs3Ws1+WOOe/Cg72brVZlR1i ltfRuNKxzr6vNaHWhVoXal2odaHWhVoXal2odaHWhVoXal2odaHWhVoXal2odaHWhVoXal2odXWg tni29tX2c8ufrnn1HR2wW1c/0D67D7U9OjS/Vj3+2O9UP2qzYWF3o7ZhGKYL3o96Mt/ZZr2oZ/Mw nDO/XB18PjatfrCdfY+9zNmJ+muqE/XMHtX+x0wParupv6f6UI/s20yj+qsn9f1/m226sRd0++p5 Pv9x7EXtfeXrRH3O/Kj3hFrXp6mv7lPUDbB3oK9n70ITERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERER ERER0T/tD96ZsE40p27xAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC --Boundary-00=_DOAz9cEdUrwOqeT Content-Type: image/png; name="TextOriented.png" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="TextOriented.png" iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAALUAAAEACAMAAADC/cfpAAABjFBMVEX////9/f2rq6vExMT29vbt 7e3T09O8vLzDw8P6+voAAACfn5+srKympqaKiorj4+MNDQ3MzMwrKyuioqLKysrb29tVVVVhYWE5 OTmIiIgXFxdLS0txcXF7e3u/v7/y8vIPDw/k5OQdHR3Pz8/Ozs6QkJDr6+uVlZUcHBxXV1clJSV5 eXn4+Phra2sbGxvp6en7+/sSEhJQUFDFxcU1NTWcnJw4ODhkZGRvb2/m5ubh4eHc3Nzd3d3i4uL+ /v7s7Oy+vr7S0tLHx8fR0dHU1NTv7++kpKS1tbW5ubnCwsL39/fz8/Pf39/5+fng4OC9vb3Z2dnA wMC7u7ujo6O4uLilpaWpqamqqqrNzc2zs7P8/PzX19f19fWoqKiurq60tLSxsbHGxsa3t7fIyMj0 9PTa2trJycnY2NjLy8vW1tbV1dXQ0NCtra3n5+eZmZmPj4+ysrKbm5uwsLCvr6+np6fo6Ojw8PDl 5eXe3t62trbu7u6enp56enpycnJ1dXWGhoZtbW3BwcG6urrx8fHXGPD4AAAAAWJLR0QAiAUdSAAA AAlwSFlzAAALEQAACxEBf2RfkQAAAAd0SU1FB9ILCBIaOz/CapsAAAJWSURBVHic7dZJcoMwAABB zvr/g1OuJDbaEcsgkulDyguSBoJlL8sSbreMuzv55T9Vj486j9UcqzlWc6zmWM2xmmM1x2qO1Ryr OVZzrOZYzbGaYzXHao7VHKs5VnOs5ljNsZpjNcdqjtUcqzlWc6zmWM2xmmM1x2qO1RyrOVZ/v15x NHTT+jtH5YnPrH6/Or7KjvV3jqpc2GdWL8+sXkJyyKGrj1XnI9MDs5OpnxxbnbxZ3G7qh29Zv+VI daMqHdzcqgZyu6O61fnR9efViZDq8Hm3cHR19Ob/2UZnVTezG2FEdWf5fCP5ebhn/ZaR6uYK+Tm+ X2llXVOdak5UqA7t6Kuv9Xh1d0h7/X2jCkvWumr/iX40/2mMS4uFU1zr/JdTJ7B/iyDV9Xcb1fwe 0hhW3Z5Xr3XvEbK6/EktfQp6F3u66p+vmHb2bNWfHyG9z8dAbnfUwep4S5y0Ot9TNk108x6SvpBt 5Y1VRnp7o4aqky2udEblqU6ubi21pNkhnql8+xTnOrc6hO3Zqy1uiR8lk11dHUI3O415P87GteY6 +75mWM2xmmM1x2qO1RyrOVZzrOZYzbGaYzXHao7VHKs5VnOs5ljNsZpjNcdqjtUcqzlWc6zmWM2x mmM1Z6rq1aThW/z84PrXVK9nDXF2chLzVn/+vh5Ez2aqfs25urifv9Gtc2D9i6rXFze5Qc5YH6ue /lqXOpNnB9enq6f9NIbfzvBe4Qk7X3wLl75ljq7/3G/0u/2X6gmyd0Tfn70rWpIkSZIkSZIkSZIk SZIkSZIkSZIkSX/UFy2+er2ZYEHBAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC --Boundary-00=_DOAz9cEdUrwOqeT-- _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel