Re: [Usability] Re: Usability Digest, Vol 14, Issue 10

[Phil Bull <philbull gmail com>]

> > Prettiness: Some people are rather utilitarian, and while there is
> > nothing wrong with that, a system could look other than grey
> > rectangular boxes without loosing the usability aspects. Of course,
> > that is in the eye of the beholder, but there could be something done
> > to the default theme.
> 
> Work is being done in that :)

Work certainly is being done on that. As long as you aren't one of
those people who insist on having an OS X theme available by default
(shudder), GNOME should have some better eye candy for you pretty
soon, if not right now:

Luminocity - http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/xshots
Cairo - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cairo+gtk
Clearlooks - http://clearlooks.sourceforge.net/screenshots/
GNOME Live Discussion - http://live.gnome.org/NewDefaultTheme

> > Top of that, attaching the save dialogs to the documents you are
> > saving in OS X is not that bad idea at all; the implementation is
> > annoying on OS X as it hides the top of the document and quite
> > possibly a lot of information you would need to name the file.
> 
> True. It has been discused here. Any suggestions?

If the dialog was made partially transparent, the document would be
visible. Failing that, why not manually shade/roll-up the dialog?

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Phil Bull
philbull.tk