RE: [Usability] ui-review of new modules

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> These ones, such as epiphany and gnomemeeting, have never had any real
> ui-review so they should be quite easy to do, and quite possibly very
> interesting. You get to go where no one has gone before and make a very
> visible difference to some popular applications.

Regarding epiphany, there is very little if any pixel pulling or label 
churning needed in epiphany. Throughout the 1.0 design cycle seth, me and 
others have spent a considerable amount of time working on the ui. Thats not 
to say its perfect, but the usability bugs that epiphany has aren't going to 
be worked out in a ui review [1]. On the other hand file roller's ui still 
needs work. [2] 

One area where epiphany/I could use help is in docs writing. A skeleton for 
the help docs already exists in cvs, just needs to be filled out. Any 
volunteers? 

dave 

[1] I'm really starting to question the usefulness of ui-reviews. They tend 
to only address skin deep layout problems and do nothing to address 
interaction problems which are the biggest usability bugs in gnome right now 
anyway. 

[2] Despite my hate of quit buttons, it would be nice if file roller at 
least followed the gnome hig and used quit instead of exit.