Re: [Usability] Filechooser: Add/Remove buttons required?

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 15:07, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> one thing I'm curious about is, whether there should be "Add" and
> "Remove" buttons for the location list, like Federico is currently
> using: http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-photos/gtkfilechooser-
> 2004-01-05.png

yes, i've mentioned this several times to people, and that topic seems
to just be ignored... 

> It seems to me like those are really difficult to place. On this
> particular snapshot they don't break the layout, but it seems a little
> bit awkward to have them as the very first items on the toolbar, even
> before "Up". Most mockup suggestions seem to leave them out, which makes
> those dialogs appear a lot cleaner.
> So, are they needed as an alternative to drag and drop and context menu
> items or could they be removed? Are the concerns accessibility related,
> usability related or both?

both.  usability, because it isn't discoverable otherwise.  contexts
menus are rarely used (at least properly) and users probably won't
realize they're there.  (of course, they *should* be ther
enone-the-less, for users who *do* use contexts menus, and because they
never will be common enough to be dependable/discoverable if nobody
starts using them.)  for accessibility because there's no way to
drag-n-drop with certain input methods.

Honestly, adding some simple Add/Remove buttons for this shouldn't be
that big of a deal.  Given the several useless buttons already present
in the mockups floating around, I think we've got plenty of room for
it... ;-)

> I hope we can work out an answer to this, because I believe that it
> would make it easier to design good possible layouts. 
> 
> Daniel
> 
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