Re: [Evolution-hackers] For the userinterface dudes (appointment alarm dialog)

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 14:00, Philip Van Hoof wrote:

> http://www.freax.be/files/alarm-notify.glade.png
> If you have UI/usability comments: please throw them.

Personally I don't think there's a good enough visual relationship
between the action buttons and the selected appointment, and it's not
immediately obvious how I would arbitrarily dismiss some reminders and
snooze some others-- presumably I'd have to snooze the ones I want to
snooze first, and then Close the dialog to dismiss the rest, which I
suspect isn't how most users' minds work :)

FWIW I think iCal on the Mac does a much better job here, with icons for
Close, Snooze and Edit beside each appointment[1]. The snooze icon pops
up a menu offering the choice of 1min/5min/1hr/2hr/1dy.  A HIG-ified
version might look something like

+------------------------------------------+
| +----+  +------------------------------+ |
| |icon|  | Today at 11:30      [C][S][E]| |
| +----+  | Team Meeting                 | |
|         |                              | |
|         | March 17            [C][S][E]| |
|         | St.Patrick's Day             | |
|         +------------------------------+ |
|                                          |
|                             [Close All]  |
+------------------------------------------+

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] http://www.gnome.org/~calum/ical.png

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