Re: [Usability] New launcher edition dialog

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mardi 28 mars 2006 �1:05 +0200, Sebastian Rittau a �it :
> 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?) 

In menus, the name is used as label and comment as tooltip. But comments
might be useless in most cases... Don't know.

>       * I would suggest using a default Icon (like the gear icon)
>         instead of no icon at all. 

Good point.

>       * 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. 

When editing an application launcher, there are two possible types. So a
checkbox might make sense there. But when creating a new launcher, you
also have a third type (link, or file) and in this case, the checkbox
would be greyed out.

The idea comes from Paolo. IMHO, it's a good way to not prominently
mention the terminal.

>       * 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..."?

Hrm... What types would you propose?

"Choose file..." probably makes sense, yes.

> > 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. :)

No need to ask the release team for this ;-)

Vincent

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