Re: [Nautilus-list] High level outline of planned client testing. Tell us what's missing, please. ;)

["John Sullivan" <sullivan eazel com>]

Oops, I forgot to mention the best part about keyboard navigation in folder
views: type the beginning of a file's name to select it. Combined with Tab
to select the next item alphabetically, this is a very convenient way to
select any file regardless of layout or quantity of files.

John

> All the file/folder stuff could be listed under "File Views", though the
> phrase you really want there I think is "Folder Views". That is, your "File
> Operations" section could be a subsection of the "Folder Views" section.
> 
> ===
> 
> One feature that's easy to overlook because it doesn't appear as pixels in the
> UI is keyboard navigation. There's a general topic of "everything should be
> accessible from the keyboard somehow" and a more specific topic of selecting
> items in folder views from the keyboard. This is also missing from the feature
> list on the testing web site, by the way. Here's a quick overview:
> 
> In icon & list views (including the desktop, the trash, and search results),
> when the content area has keyboard focus (e.g., after clicking in the
> background):
> 
> right arrow moves the selection to the next item to the right
> left arrow moves the selection to the next item to the left
> up arrow moves the selection to the next item above
> down arrow moves the selection to the next item below
> 
> If the Control key is down in addition to an arrow key, the selection does not
> change, but the "keyboard focus" moves to the next item in the specified
> direction. Control-space toggles the selection of the keyboard-focussed item.
> (This is a way to make multiple-item selections from the keyboard.)
> 
> NOTE: With "smoother graphics" (anti-aliased graphics) enabled, there is a bug
> right now where you can't tell which item has keyboard focus because it isn't
> drawn differently (bug 2877). So at the moment it only makes sense to test
> this feature with "smoother graphics" off.
> 
> Tab key moves to the next item alphabetically. Shift-tab moves to the previous
> item alphabetically.
> 
> ===
> 
> The "Other Views" section says "PostScript" when it means "PDF".
> 
> ===
> 
> In the Customization section there's a question:
> 
> Emblems (what doing in this list?)
> 
> Emblems doing in that list because you can drag & drop emblems (and
> create/remove new ones) from the window currently called "Customize". But of
> course Emblems can also be turned on and off from the Properties window, so
> testing Emblems could be listed in that other place too/instead.
> 
> ===
> 
> The Navigation section should also include the "location bar", that text field
> you can type a new location into. Note that a not-necessarily-obvious feature
> of the location bar is auto-completion of local file system URIs.
> 
> ===
> 
> That's enough comments for this round.
> 
> John
> 
> on 9/18/00 6:00 PM, Eli Goldberg at eli eazel com wrote:
> 
>> Hey, there ---
>> 
>> This is a quick high-level outline that Victor and I threw together,
>> covering what I'll probably be writing for Nautilus test cases (client
>> only).
>> 
>> There are probably lots of omissions, especially since it's biased
>> towards visible functionality; if anyone can suggest coverage areas that
>> are omitted or other holes, it would greatly help ensure competent test
>> coverage.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Eli
>> 
>> ----
>> 
>> 
>> 1.File Operations
>> 1.Deletion
>> 2.Showing attributes
>> 3.File & folder copying
>> 4.Drag & Drop gestures
>> 2.Desktop Management
>> 3.Search
>> 1.Simple
>> 2.Complex
>> 3.Web
>> 4.Views
>> 1.File Views (Icon/List)
>> 1.Icon View-specific
>> 1.Icon Stretching
>> 2.Manual vs. Automatic Layout
>> 2.Zooming (25% - 400%)
>> 3.Sorting
>> 2.Other Views
>> 1.Text: ASCII, HTML, PostScript, Man pages
>> 2.Images: PNG, JPEG/JFIF, GIF
>> 3.Archives: ZIP, bzip, gzip, tar
>> 4.Music: MP3
>> 5.Hardware
>> 6.Package
>> 5.Customization
>> 1.Preferences: Backgrounds, Emblems (what doing in this list?),
>> Colors, Themes
>> 2.Multiple user levels
>> 6.Sidebar
>> 1.Sidebar itself (adding/removing tabs, resizing, etc)
>> 2.Functionality of default sidebar panels (notes, tree, help)
>> 7.Navigation
>> 1.Bookmarks
>> 2.History
>> 8.Installation & Initial Setup
>> 1.First Time Walkthrough ("Druid")
>> 9.Networking
>> 1.Dial-Up connection through an analog line to an ISP
>> 2.No connection to network config testing
>> 3.Different URI types -- http, ftp.
>> 10.Services Integration
>> 1.Services button loads correct URI
>> 2.webDAV functionality (Eazel Vault)
>> 11.Compatibility testing
>> 1.Window Managers (Sawfish, Enlightenment, WindowMaker)
>> 2.Linux Distributions (listed below)
>> 3.GNOME distribution (helix vs. regular, 1.2 vs. 1.4)
>> 12.Help
>> 
>> 
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