Re: [Usability] Better look Re: (no subject)

[Josue Farde <josuefrade sapo pt>]

On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 17:31 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> --- Josue Farde <josuefrade sapo pt> wrote:
> > Do you all think that gnome should have labels with
> > out a frame just
> > letters and an icon?
> 
> For elements of the panel, perhaps. for menu items, it
> would be harder to ensure they're don't clash with the
> menu text.
> 
> > And do you think that labels should show up in the
> > right top corner of
> > the desktop?
> 
> I've grown to like this idea.
> But it's important that you keep it separate from your
> theming ideas. Those are to do with the appearance of
> GNOME. The top right corner idea is to do with
> changing the way tips and the help system works. You
> could imagine doing this with the current GNOME theme.
> 
> It's important to make mockups that show just one
> change, so people can understand exactly what you are
> showing, and how it would be on their system. That's
> why I suggested a mockup of this in Clearlooks or
> Human themes.
> 
> Also, for this to happen the help system would need a
> lot of work. For starters, the help docs would need to
> be good (I'm working on it) And then it would need to
> be available in small chunks... which sounds a lot
> like Shaun's ideas for Project Mallard:
> http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/quack/mallard.xml
> 
> 
> 

One more question is it better to have labels that the text inside moves
up to show more information (like the cast list in the end of a movie)
or have it plane like they are now?
> 
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