Re: Deeper integration with GNOME

["mathieu jourdan gresille org" <mathieu jourdan gresille org>]

Hi Mike!

Thanks for your fast answer. I'm glad you like these mockups! Below
answers to the points you raised.

On 15/08/2013 19:43, Michael Terry wrote:
> Hello, Mathieu!  Thank you for the email.
>
> Very nice mockups.  Some comments on them:
>
> * Little gear icon seems easy to miss?

I agree. I think to remove it and merge it with the "Back up" button.

> * Seems odd to offer on/off switch right at end of setting up the
> automatic backup.  

Yep. The idea was to schedule multiple backups and disable some of them
easily. For example, If users knows he won't have network access for a
week, then he probably should turn his daily backup to Amazon off.

Yes, that's the re-re-return of the multiple profiles thing, but I'm
pretty confident we can make it without adding any complexity (from a
user point-of-view, I mean), and user will almost deal with schedules
like he would do with history: pick up an item in a nice grid, and go.
No boring profile management.

> What happens if user switches it off, does Schedule
> button become a Back Up Now button?

Exactly.

> If so, can I do a manual backup
> while having auto backups enabled?

Yep. How to do so appears on my paper notes but I forgot to make it with
Inkscape :(

> If there is official buy in from GNOME designers I'm happy for this to
> be the future of deja dup; it looks pretty and is very GNOME-y.

I'm afraid we are far from having anything official yet, as I am very
new to the GNOME community and just decided to help. I'll see on irc if
I can gather some feedback from more official GNOME designers...

> However, from a personal level, I don't have time to drive the changes
> myself.  :(  I'm more in fixing-critical-bugs mode these days.

Then here is my personnal todo:

- make some more mockups to fix the things above
- get back my old launchpad account
- add some feature requests matching the mockups

In a couple of weeks (or months, or years?) maybe I'll be able to send
some patches.

> -mt

Mathieu

> On Aug 14, 2013 10:33 AM, <mathieu jourdan gresille org
> <mailto:mathieu jourdan gresille org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi there! I just subscribed to this list, coming from the GNOME
>     wiki. As time passes, GNOME looks more and more beautiful and easy
>     to use, but too few applications really fit the new design
>     guidelines, which are still moving anyway.
>
>     So, what's the matter? Well, Déjà Dup is the most successful attempt
>     I seen to make a clever user interface for backuping personnal data.
>     It integrates well with GNOME, but you know that. Some things have
>     already be pointed out in usability review, and I would like to help
>     making this application even more comfortable to use, especially on
>     GNOME desktops.
>
>     If you search for Déjà Dup on Google Images[0], you'll see that most
>     screenshots represent the "Two-buttons welcome screen", while user
>     will actually see this screen once, and never again. I think one of
>     the reasons of this is that the welcome screen is an important piece
>     in making Déjà-Dup feel so easy. So, you'll find below a proposal to
>     solve this paradox by "rehabilitating" this screen, making it the
>     central piece of Déjà-Dup UI, without compromising simplicity.
>
>     See the GNOME wiki[1] to find some wireframes. I would be glad to
>     read your thoughts on these.
>
>     Best regards,
>     Mathieu
>
>     [0]: https://www.google.fr/search?__q=déjà-dup
>     <https://www.google.fr/search?q=d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-dup>
>     [1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/__Playground/Backups#Proposal
>     <https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Playground/Backups#Proposal>
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