Re: [Usability] New launcher edition dialog

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mardi 28 mars 2006 �1:28 +0100, Alan Horkan a �it :
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> 
> > 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 ;-)
> 
> Notice the order Anna Dirks used, most importnatly Name was listed first.
> (If I understand correctly type might be better hidden behind a
> discolsure section with some other advanced options.)

The thing is, the type changes the meaning of the launcher. This is one
of the confusing thing in the current dialog. That's why I tried to put
it at the top. But if people believe it should be below the name, sure,
let's do it :-)

[...]

> >       * In the link editor "URL" is probably the wrong term. Also, it
> 
> Acrony Heuristic:  Take any acronym, expand it, pick the noun and try to
> summarize.
> 
> Universal/Uniform Resource Locator
> Locator => Location
> (okay so this is an old standard, didn't require any thought to unravel
> it)

"Location" is good, yes. Thanks for the tip.

> Text should be right aligned, it is so much more  readable that way.

Right-aligned or left-aligned? The labels are right-aligned right now.

> It is also what the HIG specifies but the HIG leaves too much room for
> exceptsions and everyone seems to think they are exceptional.
> 
> > > Do you agree we should go ahead and use this in 2.15?
> 
> It is a substantial improvement over the current dialog.
> 
> However I'm concerned it will die a death of a thousand cuts because it
> isn't designed knowing in advance that others will want to expand it.
> 
> It is crude but in Windows the Shortcut dialogs are like the Properties
> dialogs, the first tab is always labelled General and additional
> functionality is added in extra tabs.

The big use of this dialog will be for the panel (and it might only be
used by the panel...). I'm not sure there's a use for expanding it
there.

Do you prefer the dialog we have in nautilus? (right-click on .desktop
file in nautilus) We could work to use this one everywhere, but I find
the dialog really bloated for editing a launcher on the panel.

Vincent

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