Re: [Usability] Standard Wizard Dialog [was: File Chooser Dialog]

[Soeren <stp kabelnettet dk>]

The tabs are optional (controlled by the software as said earlier),
which means only apps that need them, will enable/show them.
As for screenshots, if you seriously want to investigate the 
various options for building a standard filedialog, then I will
take the time to make some screenshots for u :)
There could be some good ideas that should be investigated, but
i am not saying they are nescessarily a must for a gnome/gtk 
filedialog, i just hope every existing idea is considered.




On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:03, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> Consistency does not mean ugliness and inconsistency. Having the
> same extra tab in File Chooser dialog for those 3 extra apps that
> may need it, only makes them inconsistent with every other application
> in GNOME. You also aren't creating a new document from a template when
> you go to open or save a file, which is what I was saying. However, the
> explanation that I just provided makes your argument of consistency
> incorrect. If you're going to say "look at the dialog from this app",
> please also provide urls to screenshots, as not everyone has Windows,
> and definately not the Visual Studio suite to go on top of it. I am not
> looking at said "dialogs" because I don't know where any screenshots of
> them are, and nor do I have the application to look at. That's not to
> say that I'm not 100% correct in what I do say, but that I am not biased
> toward a broken interface in that respect. In response, and in hope to
> get you to stop suggesting that we add more inconsistency to an already
> very inconsistent dialog, I've created a mockup of what a druid/wizard
> for selecting a template and any options for said template, might look
> like, were it to follow the HIG and be similar to the current horrible
> GnomeDruid interface, though, actually working correctly.
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/~dobey/gnome-hig-druid-mockup.png
> 
> -- dobey
> 
> 
> Il sab, 2003-09-20 alle 07:44, Soeren ha scritto:
> > well if you want consistancy (the heuristic thats included
> > in virtually every usability guideline, also in gnome) then it
> > should be incorparated in the dialog (possibly as an optional
> > tab as seen in other os'es). If consistancy dosent matter to 
> > you then each project could create their own wizard.
> 
>