[Usability] 2. Re: Emblems selection in nautilus (Calum Benson)

[pohlmannmark72 aol com]

Hello to all,

 

This feature would be a very very good thing ! The emblem is just a descriptive property linked to a file or a folder (like the name, the icon, the date, ...). This implementation should be very light but will sure enhance the usability of Gnome (Nautilus). On older Mac OS systems (6 and 7) you had also the family menu. This menu contains colors associated to names like blue - Sport, Yellow - work... You could also change the category names to have your. Then, by selecting a file or a folder, you just had to select a category inside the family menu to have your icon "painted by transparency" with that color. So, you could very quickly see which file or folder belongs to which family. This was one of the best feature of Mac OS (now lost).

 

Let's pray for both ;-)

 

Mark

 

 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: GtkEntry with units (Calum Benson)
   2. Re: Emblems selection in nautilus (Calum Benson)
   3. Re: GtkEntry with units (Matthew Paul Thomas)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:11:13 +0000
From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
Subject: Re: [Usability] GtkEntry with units
To: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
Cc: GNOME Usability List <usability gnome org>
Message-ID: <1169485873 14918 120 camel sr1-edub-04>
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On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 13:29 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:

> (I have a familiar feeling about this problem.  There may be some
> accessibility impact or something else awkward I cannot quite put my
> finger on.

The accessibility impact is probably that you need to programatically
associate any external unit indicator (be it static text or a dropdown)
with the text field, so that screenreaders will present the value and
the unit to users as somewhat of a single entity, rather than as
unrelated controls.

Since the text box will most likely have a descriptive label as well,
this will often mean associating at least two other controls with the
same text box, which isn't technically-challenging for our screenreaders
to handle AFAIK, but I'd imagine it can't help but add a little
complexity to the task for the user.

Cheeri,
Calum.


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CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer       Sun Microsystems Ireland
mailto:calum benson sun com            GNOME Desktop Group
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:44:11 +0000
From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
Subject: Re: [Usability] Emblems selection in nautilus
To: patrik linet se
Cc: usability gnome org
Message-ID: <1169491451 14918 124 camel sr1-edub-04>
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On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 20:40 +0100, patrik linet se wrote:
> Hi!
> > On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 16:12 +0100, Patrik Andersson wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >> Wouldn't it be nice to filter a folders content depending on the
> >> files/folders emblems?
> >
> > I'm not an emblems user myself, but seems like a reasonable
> > suggestion... probably best to file a bug against nautilus (after
> > checking that there isn't one already).
> >
> There is one existing script or mod at the web, a user post it yesterday
> at this mailing-list I think, but it looks like that project is standing
> still in its development.
> 
> What way is the best way to give a feature proposal/request?

Best would probably be to file it as an enhancement request on
bugzilla.gnome.org.  Since it's specific to nautilus, you could also
suggest it on nautilus-list gnome org, and see if there's any interest.

Cheeri,
Calum.

-- 
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mailto:calum benson sun com            GNOME Desktop Group
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Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems




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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:23:21 +1300
From: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>
Subject: Re: [Usability] GtkEntry with units
To: GNOME Usability List <usability gnome org>
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On Jan 23, 2007, at 12:19 AM, Robert Staudinger wrote:
>
> On 1/22/07, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:
>> On Jan 22, 2007, at 8:03 PM, Robert Staudinger wrote:
> ...
>>> ------------------------- --------
>>> |123                     | cm <> |
>>> ------------------------- --------
> ...
>> If the field is really that wide, there is something wrong with the
>> window layout. The width of fields should be at least roughly
>> proportionate to the length of the data people are likely to enter in
>> them (though it's best to avoid using more than two or three lengths 
>> in a single window).
>
> Unfortunately it isn't always that easy. Even the HIG's own examples
> come with wide GtkEntry and combo-box/option-menu widgets:
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design-window.html

That's because they're quite likely to contain long strings. Nothing 
wrong with that.

> That should of course not be an excuse whatsoever, just some support
> for the argument that widget size cannot always easily be constrained.
> ...

Setting the width of controls is one of the few things that *is* easy 
in Glade.

Cheers
-- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/



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