Re: [Usability] Alacarte UI

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Travis Watkins wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:10:24 -0500
> From: Travis Watkins <alleykat gmail com>
> To: usability gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Alacarte UI
>
> On 4/26/06, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
> > The buttons at the top do look kind of like "a toolbar not implemented
> > properly", IMHO.  You could, perhaps, try having all the non-dialog
> > buttons (including your up/down ones) in the right-most column, i.e.
> > much like the Theme capplet does... it would make the window less tall
> > and probably not any wider, as the right-hand pane in your screenshot is
> > a good 50% wider than it probably needs to be by default.
> >
>
> Ok, I decided to remove the up/down buttons and move those 3 buttons
> over to the right hand side. The new dialog [1] is 50px shorter and
> just as wide as before. I think this is about as good as it gets but
> I'm still open to suggestions.

Since you moved things to the side and have plenty of space I'm surprised
you didn't keep the move buttons but with text lables showing (maybe put a
space or seperator between the button groups).

Aesthetically this does look somehow better balanced.  Again nice work.

-- 
Alan