Re: [Usability] Deja Dup UI Review

[Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com>]

On 21/04/2010 01:13, Michael Terry wrote:

> 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.

Off the top of my head, the simplest way I can think of to do this would 
be to modify your preferences dialog slightly:

<http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1802478/gnome/dejadup-prefs.png>

So one tab = one profile, and the + and - buttons are for 
adding/removing profiles.  By default, there would only be one tab/profile.

What this mockup doesn't have is any obvious way to rename profiles, 
though, which would clutter things a bit more (unless we did something 
nastly like hiding that feature on a tab's right-click menu).  I guess 
you might also want a way to disable a profile/schedule without deleting 
it, which would add further clutter, unless you hid that on the same 
right-click menu :)

(Incidentally, the GNOME docs guys will tell you that the verb is "to 
back up", not "to backup"...)

Cheeri,
Calum.


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