On January 11, 2010, Sean wrote: > Hello all, > > The widget explorer has some serious usability issues in my view, which I'd > like to highlight. > > 1. Having to click 10 times via the end arrows just to get to the end of > the widgets is bad(Yes I know you can use the mouse wheel).
i'd like to see click-and-hold semantics. > 2. Having to click 9 times just to get to the end of the category's filter > end is bad. click and hold. > 3. There are too many categories. Give the user a small selection and this > will in turn give some UI space back. do you have suggestions for which categories are redundant? > 4. The two problems above are compounded by having a smaller resolution. your list has a usability issue: not all of the items in the list are actually usability issues. hehe, sorry, i COULDN'T resist ;) > 5. Tooltips are huge when you mouse over the widgets, with a lot of wasted > space. yes, looks like some missing adjustSize()s > 6. An option is needed to remove running widgets. why? (and just to warn you, we've already been through this one; i have yet to see any compelling reason to add this to the UI) > 7. Don't overlay a small tick on the widget's image to show they're > running(especially on a blue coloured widget icon, since the tick is blue). > It doesn't clearly show what widget is running, despite the fact the > category shows a "running" filter. we either need better artwork for that or a better way to communicate it. it's something people wish to see, apparently. personally, i'd be fine with it not being shown at all. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
