Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Re: UI improvements screenshots

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mercredi 20 avril 2005 à 23:11 +0200, Jan Schiefer a écrit :
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> Damien Sandras schrieb:
> > Hello to all,
> > 
> > 
> > GnomeMeeting is definitely a project where the author is asking for
> > feedback to its users ;-)
> > 
> > More seriously, I have defined a few use cases that I will explain later
> > in a blog entry and the conclusion was that the best UI for those use
> > cases was the current one, but a bit improved.
> > 
> > In the screenshots, you can see a few use cases already :
> > 1) http://www.seconix.com/opal/1.png
> > Video Chat user. Doesn't care about dialpad, statistics and all this. He
> > makes a call, wants to see with who he is connected and with what
> > codecs.
> > 
> > 2) http://www.seconix.com/opal/3.png
> > Softphone user. He needs the dialpad, always, he is a softphone user. He
> > doesn't care about video and will most likely use GnomeMeeting with an
> > IPBX like Cisco Call Manager or Asterisk.
> > 
> > He can also display the statistics when he doesn't need the dialpad, so
> > that he can monitor the call quality :
> > http://www.seconix.com/opal/2.png
> > 
> > Here is the default screenshot for that softphone user, when he is not
> > connected :
> > http://www.seconix.com/opal/4.png
> > He can see at a glance how many accounts are active, how many calls he
> > missed, and his number of voicemails (new/old).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> You sould show the video and dialpad by default ( opportunity:
> enabling/disabling video by button ). Some people may not notice (
> computer newbies ) that gnomemeeting has these things.
> 
> Just for simplicity.
> 

OK about that.

I wonder if I will not replace the :
- show / hide control panel
- show / hide video section
by
use :
- compact mode
- video mode
- full mode


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