Re: Dia's user interface

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 16:43 21.04.02 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
> After reading <URL:http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.html> about
> user interfaces in open-source software, I would like to hear if anybody
> on the list knows something about user interfaces (more than just from
> having used a bunch).  If there are any, could you point out the worst
> problems that Dia has in its interface?  I'd like to turn some attention to
> that as we work towards a 1.0 release.
The first place to look at should probably be:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/articles/why_care/

It even has two screen shots of dia dialogs to show bad UI design,
one of which I've modified before to increase useability :)

Cause the useability people choose to use Dia as an example 
they would probably love to give more detailed hints how to
improve Dia's useability :-)

Though solving common toolkit problems - like tab ordering in 
dialogs - or shortcut changes should probably be delayed 
_after_ porting to Gtk+2.0 which will give us other useability 
improvements, 'inverted' No and Yes ordering and the like 
(almost) for free anyway ...

Regards,
        Hans


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