Re: [Usability] Keyboard Layout Options

[Sergey Udaltsov <sergey udaltsov gmail com>]

> Sorry if I missed it any earlier posts, but what were the problems
> associated with the old version?  If we're having a vote here, I'm
> afraid I'd have to vote for "this one needs more thought", unless the
> problems with the old one were critical.
Well, the problems with the old one are described here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164090
The most important one IMHO was inability to say, just looking at the
UI - which options are mutually exclusive - and which are not.
Instead, user should have selected the option and see whether the
"Add" button was enabled or not.
 
> the screenshot.  Personally I also think that dialogs whose main area
> sometimes has to be scrolled look kind of ugly-- it feels like the
> designer forgot to make it big enough or something :/
Well, if we _really_ make it big enough - we should require 20'
monitors with a very high dpi and low font resolution:)

> Does that include the groups of radio buttons?  A radio button group
> should pretty much always have a selection (default or otherwise)-- if
> that doesn't make sense for a particular situation, then radio buttons
> probably aren't the right thing to use.
The thing is that there are groups with the mutuall exclusive options
- and the variant 'none of them' should be available as well. That is
why the "default" variant is added - because it is not trivial do
deselect all the radios in the group.

HTH,

Sergey