Am Freitag, den 29.10.2004, 16:37 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > Hello usability folks! > > I'm currently trying to HIGify the Gnumeric "Paste Special" dialog. I'm > totally unconfident with the current layout, but don't know how to > resolve the issues in a clean fashion. I've attached a screenshot of my > current mockup. The issue seems to be that the dialog has a lot of white > space and many widgets, which could be resolved by adding comboboxes for > the "what to paste" items and the mathematical operations; note that the > backdraw of comboboxes is that options are "hidden away" in subwidgets, > which Jody doesn't want. > > regs, > Chris hmm... i never used gnumeric or excel. but this just looks terrible :) i guess and wonder myself what the operation does, but on the other hand - i bet you will have only excel users use it, so just copy the excel dialog. if you ask me i think copy/paste special may rather be a horrible misuse of excels or another similar applications functionality, but well - we all know people who maintain adress databases IN microsoft word. just copy the excel dialog with lots of stomach ache ;) (mit viel bauchweh :D) --- my two cents --- my oppinion on the dialog. looking at it - it's obvious that if you hit it mistakingly you dont know what it does. so basically it needs you to have this thick thick book by the shelf that exactly teaches the use of all these badly implemented excel features. now the point for me is. if the functionality is so cryptic - i guess its better implemented _another_ way. i doubt the guys who did this in excel had a clean feeling in their stomach when doing this dialog. maybe they just thought, hell no one will ever check what this is about, and those who will - will have read the "excel professional guide 2000 xp reference published by joe user press". i highly doubt this dialog makes any sense. beside offering a bad functionality that maybe can be made simpler. --- end my two cents ---
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