Re: [Usability] [Fwd: RE: Your final comments on gswitchit in 2.4...]

["Sergey V. Oudaltsov" <sergey oudaltsov clients ie>]

> 1) Do a nice flag, or just the name of the layout.  If
> the users want to change the flag, then point them at
> the png you're using and ask them to customize the
> flag there.  No GUI need.
It seems I will go this way. Also, I will add an option just to show the 
layout name instead (as people here advised).

> 2) Sergey said that there was no GUI for this one.
True.

> 3) Either you can show the preview on real time, or
> you should not show it.  It doesn't looks like
> something useful anyway, so I guess that the best idea
> is just to dig it out.  If you want to keep it, maybe
> you should generate png or svg's for each layout,
> store them, and show them at request, instead of
> generating a whole ps, and using ggv.
No pregeneration is possible here - there are too many combinations. 
Well, I can get rid of it (actually, I had too many troubles with bonobo 
and ggv - possibly just because I am not smart enough to use them). But 
I always thought about this feature as a kind of "bonus eye candy" 
(which I did not see in MS OSes up to Win2000 - I wonders whether MacOS 
or XP provide something similar). So, folks, I would love to hear more 
voices on this - whether this is just bloat or a nice touch:)

> 4) That may be useful.  1 checkbox.
Yes. From my POW it is not discussible:)

> 5) needs no GUI.  Just pick an unused, sane, hotkey
> and document it.
Unfortunately, no. In Russian world (sorry, I again refer to the country 
which I know best of all) people use Shift-Shift, Alt-Shift, Right 
Control - and I'm afraid there is no reasonable "default" here (which 
would take at least 60% of users). So this should be visible in UI.

> I also don't understand what's all these
> groups/layouts/primary/secondary businness, so I guess
> users don't care anyway.
Do you mean I have to put secondary group checkboxes into "Advanced"? 
Well, it is just one checkbox per group - so I am not sure that 1 
checkbox is worth 1 button just to show/hide it.

> For the tabs' name (Option #1, etc.), I don't see what
> other options you can have that make you use a
> notebook at all.
Well, actually Options 1/2 will only appear in "Advanced" mode - that's 
how I see it.

Thanks a lot for the comments,

Sergey