Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 11 January 2010, Sean wrote: > 2010/1/11 Aaron J. Seigo > > > On January 11, 2010, Sean wrote: > > > The click and hold idea doesn't solve the issue, which is; You > > > shouldn't put too many categories in the filter UI. (Usability). > > > Something like, Most used, Favourites, running

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Sean wrote: > Simple, to the point and users know these from the Kicoff menu. Recommended > could be widgets that are randomly recommended for use by us. Maybe track > the users most used and randomly pick from it? It's mainly just a fill in > for now really. > > Here i

Re: Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-12 Thread SuseUX
On Jan 12, 2010 12:45pm, Sebastian Kügler wrote: On Tuesday 12 January 2010 13:17:04 Sean wrote: > Here is the idea for a new category UI design > http://imagebin.ca/view/5yNh2p3.html The categories really don't say anything about the purpose of an applet. Say I'm looking for a to

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-12 Thread Ivan Čukić
> > Here is a idea for a way to remove widgets and more than one of the same > > kind http://imagebin.ca/view/UaQTcxW.html The idea for listing and removing/killing running widgets was to have it in Ctrl+Escape dialogue - just like when killing/listing normal processes. Cheerio. -- You know,

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-12 Thread Hans Chen
Hey, On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 21:48, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > 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) I would like this option as well since are som

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-12 Thread J Janz
2010/1/12 Aaron J. Seigo > > the click-hold-to-scroll the applet list will be on my agenda for tomorrow > and > should be backportable. > > What about a scrollbar on the bottom (btw, like in Sean's mockup)? It's the faster way to get to the end of the list and still provide left and right arrow b

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-12 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday 12 January 2010 13:17:04 Sean wrote: > Here is the idea for a new category UI design > http://imagebin.ca/view/5yNh2p3.html The categories really don't say anything about the purpose of an applet. Say I'm looking for a tool to take notes, where do I find this? It would be good to bas

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-12 Thread Sean
2010/1/12 Aaron J. Seigo > On January 11, 2010, Sean wrote: > > 5. Tooltips are huge when you mouse over the widgets, with a lot of > wasted > > space. > > btw, this one is fixed in trunk. it required a small but important tweak to > Plasma::Dialog's API, so i can't backport for 4.4. > > the clic

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 11, 2010, Sean wrote: > 5. Tooltips are huge when you mouse over the widgets, with a lot of wasted > space. btw, this one is fixed in trunk. it required a small but important tweak to Plasma::Dialog's API, so i can't backport for 4.4. the click-hold-to-scroll the applet list will be o

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-12 Thread Thelwyn
2010/1/12 Chani > > > > > 5. Tooltips are huge when you mouse over the widgets, with a lot of > wasted > > space. > > indeed; it's not just wasted space, it gets in the way of dropping the > widget! > ideally the tooltip should be banished during drag&drop somehow. > > There's a bug report about

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-11 Thread Chani
> > 5. Tooltips are huge when you mouse over the widgets, with a lot of wasted > space. indeed; it's not just wasted space, it gets in the way of dropping the widget! ideally the tooltip should be banished during drag&drop somehow. > > 6. An option is needed to remove running widgets. No. no

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 11, 2010, Björn Ruberg wrote: > My steps to reproduce: Add an external monitor to your laptop and extend > your desktop. Put widgets on the extended desktop. Then remove the > external screen and move to somewhere, where you don't have one. Notice, > that the widgets on the extended scre

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-11 Thread Sean
2010/1/11 Aaron J. Seigo > On January 11, 2010, Sean wrote: > > The click and hold idea doesn't solve the issue, which is; You shouldn't > > put too many categories in the filter UI. (Usability). Something like, > > Most used, Favourites, running. Why not mirror the Kickoff and use terms > > the

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-11 Thread Björn Ruberg
> 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). > > 2. Having to click 9 times just to get to the end of the category's filter > end is bad. I think the main problem is, that it is bad to having perhaps 40

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 11, 2010, Sean wrote: > The click and hold idea doesn't solve the issue, which is; You shouldn't > put too many categories in the filter UI. (Usability). Something like, > Most used, Favourites, running. Why not mirror the Kickoff and use terms > the user knows or let the search box fil

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-11 Thread Sean
2010/1/11 Aaron J. Seigo > 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 kn

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
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