Re: [Usability] [Fwd: Icon view navigation]

[Dave Epstein <wonderpup gmail com>]

I agree with the wrapping. 

Beeping in my opinion should generally be avoided.  It is generally a
pretty good practice to reserve audible warnings for a critical error
or for a notification that the user asked for (such as receiving a new
email). Since the user will actually be looking at the screen while
they perform the action, it's not necessary to have an audible
reminder when a visual one will do.

If you want to inform the user that there was an actual effect based
on their keystroke then you could have the highlighted cell have some
kind of visual flash or wink to indicate what just happened.

It is important to let the user know that the action that they
performed (such as pressing a keystroke) had an effect on their
computer, so as to enforce the idea that every interaction has an
actual effect on their system (and that things haven't crashed).

Dave


On 7/7/05, Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de> wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> > -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
> >
> >>Von: Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>
> >>An: nautilus-list gnome org
> >>Betreff: Icon view navigation
> >>Datum: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:16:25 +0200
> >>Dear usability crew,
> >>
> >>in an effort to fix bug 9930 [1], which complains that when pressing
> >>right in the last icon column, the selection doesn't move to the next
> >>row, first column, I've noticed that providing a good icon keynav isn't
> >>trivial. Some observations/questions:
> >>
> >>* Users (including me) indeed tend to use the right/left key as "give me
> >>next/prev. icon", where the list is read zig-zag, i.e. the nth row, last
> >>icon preceeds the n+1th row, first icon
> >>* When you have the first column/row focused and press left, would you
> >>expect to be taken to the first row, last column? What about the last
> >>icon in the view and the right key?
> >>* Should the selection "wrap"? We currently select everything in the
> >>matrix between and including the start icon of the selection and the
> >>msot recently selected item, i.e. we have a selection pane, as if you
> >>selected everything in between with the rubberband.
> >>
> >>The attached patch introduces the behavior described in the first two *.
> >>Maybe an usability tester could point out other observations?
> >>
> >>[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99330
> >
> >
> > Sorry, I've sent the mail to the wrong list.
> >
> I would neither wrap selection nor the cursor. If you edit a text you don't want
> to wrap. I personally sometimes don't use 'Home' and 'End' keys, but just press
> cursor up/down until it beeps because it reached the start or end of something.
> 
> Stefan
> 
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