http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11945 <pre> On 7 Jun 2013, at 12:01, Ritesh Khadgaray &lt;khadgaray&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; wrote: I suspect it might be best to ask for a quick review in the #gnome-design channel on IRC. That's where most of the design team hang out most of the time, these days. </pre> Calum Benson 2013-06-07T14:31:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11944 <pre>Hi Is it possible to review the usability[1] of this[2] ? Or should I post this to gtk-devel-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org ? [1] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/135529515/screenshot.png [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672220 Thank you </pre> Ritesh Khadgaray 2013-06-07T11:01:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11943 <pre> To go forward, is there anybody involved in software design who wants to step in? now or later Technically it should not be much more than a git module from which we can get tarballs. There should not be much processing involved. Maybe some i18n. _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability </pre> Luc Pionchon 2013-06-04T06:22:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11942 <pre> can you dump it? (without the awful stuff) </pre> Luc Pionchon 2013-06-04T06:19:03 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11941 <pre> yes, exactly. yes, it is about software design. For music, the audio stream is not needed. The metadata is. Same for videos. _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability </pre> Luc Pionchon 2013-06-04T06:16:34 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11940 <pre> I have well-tagged awful music ;) _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability </pre> Bastien Nocera 2013-06-03T15:16:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11939 <pre>Le 2013-06-03 16:38, Bastien Nocera a écrit : Hopefuly, you mean that only in the very specific case of a software design process. ;) </pre> Mathieu Stumpf 2013-06-03T15:08:03 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11938 <pre> Except that you don't want to download 100 GB of songs to test a software. Blank songs would compress to almost nothing, and more or less to the size of the metadata once tarball'ed up. It should be possible to offer tens of thousands of songs with a download size in megs, not gigs. The construction of good test cases with the metdata is more important than the contents of the files. _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability </pre> Bastien Nocera 2013-06-03T14:38:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11937 <pre>Le 2013-06-03 07:48, Luc Pionchon a écrit : There are plenty of good free/libre songs out there, you know?[1] What about picking some? To my mind, it would be just natural to provide some of them with nowaday distributions. In fact, that would a good anchor to add a "open in ${SONG_EDITOR}" feature and encourage users to embrace the free/libre philosophy behind just free software. Free Software is not enough for a Free Society: we need Free Arts and Free Cultures. [1] And I exclude CC-*-nc when I say free/libre. Yes, there also real bad free/libre songs, just like anywhere. Here is an archive that you may mirror to get some songs : http://download.tuxfamily.org/cls/ rsync://download.tuxfamily.org/cls/ ftp://download.tuxfamily.org/cls/ Wikimedia commons and archive.org have plenty of them. </pre> Mathieu Stumpf 2013-06-03T13:32:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11936 <pre>GNOME could create and use a database of user data. One thing that comes regularly when we see features/mockups/previews, is that the software contains basically no data. As an example, here the music player has 4 artists: http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2013/05/29/some-gnome-3-9-sightings Having “real life” datasets help to see how the software scales in real environment. In the case of an Artist list, as an example, you may have 50 artists in your own music library. *Plus*, if you have 10 compilations (movie soundtrack? dance compilation?) with each 30 individual artists , and tadam… +300, your artist list is flooded with artists (whom you never heard) with a single track. Your artist list becomes useless, although it looked so nice and clean and easy on the mockups. I suggest that GNOME set up a user data database to be used to test and present applications in more real situations. Ideally there would be several user profiles. The case of a fresh install (with basically no user data) is defini</pre> Luc Pionchon 2013-06-03T05:48:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11935 <pre>Or Ctrl+mouse1 to browse in overview, in order not to remove the flexibility of dragging windows from the top-left corner like this: http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3953/ctrlmouse1tobrowse.png 2013/5/19 Vincent Weber &lt;weber.vincent&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability </pre> Vincent Weber 2013-05-19T14:58:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11934 <pre>This might be a lot more usable: http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/9491/bettersuggestion.png 2013/5/19 Vincent Weber &lt;weber.vincent&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability </pre> Vincent Weber 2013-05-19T14:34:58 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11933 <pre>!! This is _NO_ "please put a button here"/"please bring back that taskbar"-request !! Dear awesome developers, I have switched from KDE4 to Gnome 3, because I absolutely love it for its usability! Its lack of visual noise is great for my attention span, like no other DE has managed, in terms of distraction. There is however one thing that, for me, would completely floor it, in terms of usability and make it the best desktop metaphor, ever made... I find minimizing (actually pushing back a window) with the middle mouse button a stroke of genius, but the problem is that when I compare it to an actual physical desk, is that I can't see some kind of 2,5/3D-ish stack effect. So when I suspend the desktop and come back later; I can't see _IF_ there are window(s) underneath/behind/uncompozited, unless I 'exposé' with the activity button, in case I forgot what I was working on... So in order not to waste screen real-estate, I made a quick 'sketch' of a possible non-intrusive and extremely useful indicator o</pre> Vincent Weber 2013-05-19T08:48:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11932 <pre>We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on the world’s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP ( http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 ) organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia from University of Georgia, USA. We submitted a fake paper to WORLDCOMP 2011 and again (the same paper with a modified title) to WORLDCOMP 2012. This paper had numerous fundamental mistakes. Sample statements from that paper include: (1). Binary logic is fuzzy logic and vice versa (2). Pascal developed fuzzy logic (3). Object oriented languages do not exhibit any polymorphism or inheritance (4). TCP and IP are synonyms and are part of OSI model (5). Distributed systems deal with only one computer (6). Laptop is an example for a super computer (7). Operating system is an example for computer hardware Also, our paper did not express any conceptual meaning. However, it was accepted both the times without any modifications (and without any reviews) and we were invited to submit </pre> georgepeter< at >hushmail.com 2013-04-12T17:38:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11931 <pre>I think it would be relevant to mention explicitly in the HIG's that menu items should display the corresponding keyboard shortcut, and that the toolbar buttons should also display them in their tooltip. Suggestion: 1. add this point to the guidelines of the page Toolbars / Labels and Tooltips &lt;tp://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.5/toolbars-labels-tooltips.html.en&gt; * If the toolbar control has a corresponding keyboard shortcut, include it in the tooltip 2. add this point tothe guidelines of the page Menus &lt;http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.5/menus.html.en&gt; * If the menu item has a corresponding keyboard shortcut, include it next to the item's name, aligned to the right _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability </pre> Geoffroy Menard 2013-01-26T15:55:18 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11930 <pre>Hi Zeerak, Thanks for your suggestion. Since it specifically concerns the shell component, you might consider directing it to the &lt;gnome-shell-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org&gt; mailing list, where more of the right designers and developers will probably see it more quickly. Regards, Calum. On 1 Dec 2012, at 10:25, Zeerak Imran &lt;strnm&lt; at &gt;live.com&gt; wrote: </pre> Calum Benson 2012-12-03T17:21:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11929 <pre> Hey (developers),For a start, I would like to say that I really like Gnome 3 and all the efforts you have put into it, keep going.Here is my suggestion which I would really want to be implemented in the next update/release or at least have an extension made for it.The suggestion is: Make it so that when a user types anything while on desktop ,without anything selected, it opens the activities menu and inserts whatever he/she typed on the desktop into the search field.Please make this transition seamless. So the second I start typing on the desktop my charectors that I have already typed and am typing are immediately being inserted into the Activites search with the Activities menu open. This idea isn't exactly original as this works on my blackberry as well and I thought it would be amazing if it worked in gnome since blackberry os and gnome 3 are actually very similar in design.Just to clarify, the activites menu is the main menu triggered by the hot corner on top left by default.Please make this idea int</pre> Zeerak Imran 2012-12-01T10:25:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11927 <pre>I was just wondering about any updates on this. I'm new to mailing lists so hopefully this reply is correct. Are there any current issues that need worked out before this might be pushed forward?_______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability </pre> Craig Rob 2012-08-30T01:38:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11926 <pre>And the last reminder to please update your section for Q2/2012 here: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2012/Q2 Apart from Web, Documentation and Bugsquad everything is still missing. andre </pre> Andre Klapper 2012-08-20T07:23:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11921 <pre>Buyongo Phiri wants you to try Dropbox! Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs and videos with you anywhere and share them easily. Get started here: http://www.dropbox.com/el/?r=/link/20.zAaSoaYkpN/NjIyNDY3NjQ4OTc%3Fsrc%3Dreferrals_bulk9%26eh%3Da46f716&amp;b=clk:None:922758402079765660:438:331&amp;z=adf49b1cfc - The Dropbox Team ____________________________________________________ To stop receiving invites from Dropbox, please go to http://www.dropbox.com/bl/97ea938e4f89/usability%40gnome.org_______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability </pre> Dropbox 2012-06-24T12:01:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.usability/11920 <pre>Heya, The widget is in GTK+ master. Could we have some recommendations drawn up for more complicated uses, such as: - Evolution and Rhythmbox' use of popups on the left-handside to select the sources to filter (or go for the gnome-documents style drop-down) - Whether we should recommend "search" buttons for non-instant searches, or use of the activate button signal (pressing Enter on keyboard or on-screen keyboard) If we're going with gnome-documents drop-down, I'm currently writing a widget for Totem to handle the drop-down selection, and uses GdTaggedEntry to show the filters used. Cheers </pre> Bastien Nocera 2012-06-11T18:16:04 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gnome.usability