Re: [Usability]preferred applications dialog

[Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>]

Am Sam, 2003-02-15 um 16.36 schrieb Mathew Johnston:
> we can improve it still. The use of toggle buttons is cute, but I think
> that their cuteness is outweighed by the fact that they are never used
> anywhere else in the system. Also, if I click the "no" button, and it
> turns to "yes", does that mean that clicking "yes" will turn the feature
> on or off? Am I clicking, "yes" to turn on the feature, or am I
> clicking, "yes", to switch it to, "no"? See what I mean? While
> checkboxes may not fit aestheticly, they are the standard and are well
> understood.

1.
They aren't widely used throughout the desktop, this is right. But if we
always used that as a reason for not trying new things we cannot get
really forward IMHO.

2.
If you wanna know how we should handle the click and show thingies
inside the dialog you can have a look at glade (glade gave me the idea
to use toggles)

> The left hand configuration item selector is also non-standard. Do we
> have a standard for this? I mean, do we use a tree view? Do we use a
> notebook view? Do we do like Galeon and have a slider panel thing with
> icons for each configuration item? I sort of like the way that Galeon in
> Gnome 1.4 does it, actually.

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/controls.html#controls-notebooks
sais:
<quote>
If you have more than about six tabs in a notebook, use a list control
instead of tabs to switch between the pages of controls.
</quote>

I know that we don't have these six items at the moment, but I would
prefer the tree because of it's cleaner look.

> Then there's the whole issue of preferred applications at all. Why do we
> have preferred applications? Shouldn't we just have protocol handlers? 

So what protocols should window managers, terminals and editors listen
to?

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Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>
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