Re: [Usability] New launcher edition dialog

Le mardi 28 mars 2006 à 21:05 +0200, Sebastian Rittau a écrit :
Am Montag, den 27.03.2006, 22:01 +0200 schrieb Vincent Untz:

For... a really long time, we have a bug about simplifying the new
launcher dialog :
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95331

I coded a new dialog to be put in gnome-desktop (or maybe
gnome-menus...). You can see screenshots in the bug. Please ignore the
english/french mix in the strings ;-)

Thanks for working on this. I just had a look at the existing dialog and
all I can say is ... ugh.


I'd like some feedback on this. Is it totally wrong? (I hope not ;-)) Is
there some things to improve?

* What is the distinction between Name and Comment? As far as I
can see the name is displayed in the top line of the tooltip,
while the comment is displayed in the lower line. Does a user
really want to decide between that? Isn't a single entry enough?
Or did I miss some other uses of this information? (And what
about a11y?)

In menus, the name is used as label and comment as tooltip. But comments
might be useless in most cases... Don't know.

* I would suggest using a default Icon (like the gear icon)
instead of no icon at all.

Good point.

* What are the possible types? If it's just "Application" and
"Application in Terminal" I would rather suggest a discreet
checkbox. Also then I don't think it needs a prominent placement
right at the top of the dialog.

When editing an application launcher, there are two possible types. So a
checkbox might make sense there. But when creating a new launcher, you
also have a third type (link, or file) and in this case, the checkbox
would be greyed out.

The idea comes from Paolo. IMHO, it's a good way to not prominently
mention the terminal.

* In the link editor "URL" is probably the wrong term. Also, it
doesn't sound as if you could enter a file name here. Maybe use
a type chooser in this dialog? Or change the text entry label to
"Address/File:" and the button text to "Choose file..."?

Hrm... What types would you propose?

"Choose file..." probably makes sense, yes.

Do you agree we should go ahead and use this in 2.15?

I personally think so, since whatever comes out of this can only be
better than the current dialog. But then I am not member of the release
team. :)

No need to ask the release team for this ;-)

Vincent

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