Re: [Usability] Re: My (ongoing) analysis of the proposed modules

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:51:50 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> >> This menu has only one item. That's not a good sign, but I don't have
> >> any suggestions about it at this time.
> 
> > Not a good sign? What of?
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/menus.html
> Read the section beginning:
> Do not have menus with less than three items on them...

Right, it's not too pretty. Is it a sign of something, though?

> 
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>   Something about a top level Menu name with two words bothers me, I cant
> think of any other application that does this.

Hmm, you are looking at the screenshots on the web page. :-)
That menu is gone.

> 
> http://gucharmap.sourceforge.net/shots/gucharmap_shot_04.png
> All the screenshots seem HUGE.
> Is gucharmap usable on a 640x480 display? (or 800x600 for that matter?)

It should work. They're huge because I use 1920x1440. But
everything should be appropriately sized at 

> 
> >> The "Text to copy" field and "Copy" button seem odd to me too.
> 
> Text to copy [                ] Copy
>              Text copied to clipboard
> 
> I would simplify this to
> 
> [                   ] Copy
> 
> and put the status message in the status bar, same goes for Find.

This stuff is different in 0.6.0. Find is gone, it's a
dialog accessible from menu item now. The extra status
labels are gone, and text to copy is at the bottom so it's
closer to the status menu.

> 
> If the descriptive label is necessary, aesthetically I think it would look
> better like this:
> 
> Text to copy
> [                  ] Copy

I got the descriptive label from gnome-character-map. What's wrong with it?

Noah