[shr-u] first impressions

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra rms at 1407.org
Fri Sep 11 11:35:27 CEST 2009


On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:21:31AM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 19:12 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 07:39:02PM +0200, arne anka wrote:
> > > > Then where do you have any "OK" button?
> > > 
> > > ok, it's called "quit".
> > 
> > And it's utterly useless, in fact I'm thinking of writing up a
> > few small-screen usability recommendations for our friendly apps.
> > 
> > One of them is: don't use "quit/close/..." buttons, they waste valuable
> > eral estate and you can close the windown easily in an alternative way
> > (panel, click on close).
> > 
> > Rui
> 
> Hooray - sense at last.  Coming up with a user oriented interface, not a
> programmers idea of what he personally likes will be a great step
> forward.  I like close buttons, but consistency is more important I
> think.  And please, please get rid of those dumb sliders used where
> radio buttons are used :)

A slider makes more sense (at least to me) than a radio button with
two options :)

Rui



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