Re: [Tracker] Tracker Preferences UI redesigned for GtkBuilder

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 14/09/09 07:02, Ivan Frade wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Ivan,

>   As a first approach to release 0.7 is ok, but i think we should do a
> complete clean-up of that preferences applet, a little bit in this line:

I generated it from scratch cleaning it up as I went along. A lot of the 
options we have in the config files don't really make sense to have in 
the UI and to be honest the user won't care about I suppose, so I did 
prune a lot.

You have to remember, the dialog should be clean and not too cluttered, 
if you put detailed information in there on show 100% of the time it 
looks horrible (IMO) and that can be avoided with tooltips.

> http://weblog.savanne.be/176-a-tale-about-design

I personally think that dialog is ugly and he is using small text there 
for what really should be done in tooltips OR a much better checkbutton 
description.

>   For instance, instead of a button under "monitoring" with only the
> "Enable" text, i would propose:
>
> [Button] Enable monitoring
> <small>Tracker follow changes on the files</small>

Yea, this could probably be improved to something like:

  [x] Watch for file changes

Or something like that. Or say something more impressive in the tooltip 
and leave it as is.

> And something like:
>
> ----
> [Button] Generate thumbnails
> <small> Tracker will generate thumbnails of images and videos</small>

I think the tooltip could mention the videos/images, yes.

> [Button] Run on battery
> <small> Tracker can be paused when the device is using battery instead
> of AC</small>

Again, good use for a tooltip.

> Stop indexing when available disk space is under [TEXT Entry] % of total
> space.
> ----
>
> and i would remove "Include mounted directories" and "include removable
> media" (or move them to a different tab...)

Why?

I put there here because these are all on/off options that affect indexing.

> I'll try to propose a new .glade file (It is easier than describe the
> changes).

I think before you do, we should agree to avoid wasting resources ;)

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Regards,
Martyn