http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Usability/consistancy_watchlist&feed=atom&action=history 2013-06-19T14:33:06Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.20.2 http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Usability/consistancy_watchlist&diff=52772&oldid=prev 2010-07-25T12:42:16Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr style='vertical-align: top;'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 12:42, 25 July 2010</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>What do we do well, and what do we need to work on, to avoid duplication of work, and keep users understanding how to use our product</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>What do we do well, and what do we need to work on, to avoid duplication of work, and keep users understanding how to use our product</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; 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AaronPeterson http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Usability/consistancy_watchlist&diff=52771&oldid=prev 2010-07-25T12:38:24Z

<p>Inspired by Aaron (not me) Akademy, Trying to make a list of consistancy related issues</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>What do we do well, and what do we need to work on, to avoid duplication of work, and keep users understanding how to use our product<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Plasmoids and windows ==<br /> How do we keep people knowing if they are using a tear-out widget, or a plasmoid, or a panel, or a window, or a tool-tip, or a notification<br /> <br /> == Buttons &amp; hyperlinks vs mouse over vs danger items ==<br /> Icons in a filemanager represent a file, and activiation may harm the system, so double-click has been a common way to open them.<br /> <br /> Single click, hyperlinks must be safe, typically give indication by cursor change, or color change<br /> <br /> Single click buttons must be safe / require confirmation before doing something dangerous<br /> <br /> System Settings does not honor this, and is confusing because it requires double clicking to open a safe item when double click in file manager is on.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Global vs Local settings ==<br /> Configuration becomes non-trivial when each program has local over-ride of a global setting, however, we should be consistent in providing these options to our users. This could all be done by the system so the work gets done once by kconfiguration, we could make it so every application that takes a global configuration, could be intercepted by the global configuration manager.<br /> <br /> <br /> A person may want konqueror to always do things with single click, and dolphin to respect danger-item-activation<br /> <br /> == Pop ups vs pop-ins vs notifications ==<br /> Most people seem to prefer pop-ins, There are a few important instances when to use pop-ups, and a few<br /> <br /> <br /> == Jargan ==<br /> Settings vs configure</div>

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