Re: [Usability] bad dialog, need advice

["Kevin Carlson" <kdesltd gmail com>]

I've never used gthumb, but looking at both versions of the dialog... wow. I don't think I would know what to do with the current dialog. Your version is a lot clearer. The only thing I would do (because it wasn't clear in the picture) would be to make the undo and redo buttons gray out when there's nothing to undo or redo. But, other than that, I like that version a lot better.

On 10/28/07, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak <mjc avtechpulse com> wrote:

Hi all,

The crop dialog in gthumb is currently quite confusing. The main "crop
now" button is hidden in the upper left, diagonally opposite the main
button cluster. See for example:

http://www.avtechpulse.com/downloads/crop-old.png

New users normally drag a selection area with the mouse, and then
(incorrectly) click "Apply", which closes the dialog without cropping.
They are supposed to click "Crop", and then click "Apply" (= close
dialog and save file later) or "Save" (= save file immediately and close
dialog), or "Undo", or "Redo", or "Cancel".

I tried my hand at redesigning the dialog here:

http://www.avtechpulse.com/downloads/crop-new.png

and I think it's somewhat better, but I'd like suggestions / warnings
from usability/HIG-gurus before I go too far...

For the curious, the "old" dialog is in gthumb-2-10 (svn gthumb-2-10
branch + current releases) and the "new" dialog is in trunk
(experimentally).

- Mike
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