Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Ideas for a new GUI

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 08:46:12PM +0200, Damien Sandras wrote:
> The rest of the GUI needs to contain at least:
> - a part to display the video
> - a dialpad
> - a statistics window
> - sliders to adjust the audio / video settings
> 
> I had the idea to do something like Skype : everything in tabs. But that
> is not very convenient. For example, imagine that you have a video

  In Skype, typing a telconf phone number and, then click on the tab
then use the mouse to type the call confirmation numbers is a pain.
I think there is a number of "common use cases" like this, and trying
to derive the UI by optimizing a set of well defined use cases is I
think the GUI design recommmended approach. We I for sure find Skype
to not be that great for the most common operations. trying to make
sure everything can be done easilly with just keyboard access is 
also important. Tabs are nice but you should never have to use it to
establish maintain or stop a communication. Using them for access to
extra features non-critical to communication would be okay though I
think.

  my 2 cents,

Daniel

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