Re: [Usability] New launcher edition dialog

[Sebastian Rittau <srittau jroger in-berlin de>]

Am Montag, den 27.03.2006, 22:01 +0200 schrieb Vincent Untz:

> For... a really long time, we have a bug about simplifying the new
> launcher dialog :
>    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95331
> 
> I coded a new dialog to be put in gnome-desktop (or maybe
> gnome-menus...). You can see screenshots in the bug. Please ignore the
> english/french mix in the strings ;-)

Thanks for working on this. I just had a look at the existing dialog and
all I can say is ... ugh.


> I'd like some feedback on this. Is it totally wrong? (I hope not ;-)) Is
> there some things to improve?

      * What is the distinction between Name and Comment? As far as I
        can see the name is displayed in the top line of the tooltip,
        while the comment is displayed in the lower line. Does a user
        really want to decide between that? Isn't a single entry enough?
        Or did I miss some other uses of this information? (And what
        about a11y?) 
      * I would suggest using a default Icon (like the gear icon)
        instead of no icon at all. 
      * What are the possible types? If it's just "Application" and
        "Application in Terminal" I would rather suggest a discreet
        checkbox. Also then I don't think it needs a prominent placement
        right at the top of the dialog. 
      * In the link editor "URL" is probably the wrong term. Also, it
        doesn't sound as if you could enter a file name here. Maybe use
        a type chooser in this dialog? Or change the text entry label to
        "Address/File:" and the button text to "Choose file..."?

> Do you agree we should go ahead and use this in 2.15?

I personally think so, since whatever comes out of this can only be
better than the current dialog. But then I am not member of the release
team. :)

 - Sebastian