Re: [Usability] Keyboard Layout Options

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 01:29, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> > There are a couple of arguments for not needing a solution
> >  -This problem is preferable to those associated with the old UI anyway
> > (sorry svu :-) )
> Arrgh:) I am not as stubborn as some people could think:)

Sorry if I missed it any earlier posts, but what were the problems
associated with the old version?  If we're having a vote here, I'm
afraid I'd have to vote for "this one needs more thought", unless the
problems with the old one were critical.

IMHO the old one was visually preferable to this new design (even if it
did involve some horizontal scrolling), which is positively crammed with
text when even just a couple of the expanders are open as they are in
the screenshot.  Personally I also think that dialogs whose main area
sometimes has to be scrolled look kind of ugly-- it feels like the
designer forgot to make it big enough or something :/

> >  -There are no options selected by default. 

Does that include the groups of radio buttons?  A radio button group
should pretty much always have a selection (default or otherwise)-- if
that doesn't make sense for a particular situation, then radio buttons
probably aren't the right thing to use.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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