Re: [Usability] Deja Dup UI Review

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

> Hello, usability list!

Hi Michael! Welcome! :)

> I'm writing to request the favor of a UI
> review for my pet project Deja Dup [1].  It is a GNOME-based backup
> utility (and is being proposed as a Desktop module for GNOME 3.0).  I
> believe such requests are in scope for this list?

Absolutely!

> If not, sorry for
> being so cheeky.

Nothing wrong with being cheeky. :)

> Matthias already did a bit of a review in the module-proposal thread,
> and I'll include his comments at the bottom of this email [3].  I
> would argue a bit with his first item, but mostly agree with others.

Yes, Matthias picked up on a lot of relevant points.

> Above and beyond a review of how the current UI could be
> improved/redesigned, I'd like thoughts on a feature request I keep
> getting.  Basically, people want backup profiles (being able to backup
> potentially different data to different locations on different
> schedules).  I've been struggling with how to offer such functionality
> without making the UI much busier/complicated and would love
> suggestions.

I've had a look at the Deja Dup interface and have some ideas as to how
this could be done. I'm pretty busy at the moment, but I'll try and find
some time to look at this.

A good way to start would be to set up a wiki page for the UI review and
to seed it with screenshots of the current GUI along with the points
raised by Matthias. Once we've got that we can create some mockups (it
would be nice to share those as SVGs).

It seems likely that a profile creation/first run wizard will be
required, so it might be nice to start thinking about the steps required
for that.

Hope that helps!

Allan
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