[shr-u] first impressions

W.Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Fri Sep 11 03:21:31 CEST 2009


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 :)

BillK






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