2008/6/10 Luis Menina <liberforce@(protected)>:
> Hi all,
>
> Per Frederic Crozat request (who was afraid those remarks would otherwise
> come too late for 2009.0), I give you the link to a the draft of a document
> I've started. The object of this document is to give some hints of
> improvement in the ergonomy of the drakxtools.
> http://www.freeside.fr/guides/drakxtools/drakxtools.en.html
>
> It's still on the very beginning, but I'll try to add more stuff on a
> regular basis. I was informed a week ago that there's a french initiative
> about the same topic, of which I'm not a member ATM:
> http://www.mandrivafr.org/trac/ergonomie/
>
> Note that I'm trying to have a list of usability improvements, but without
> adding new features at the same time. That's because the drakxtools need
> consistency first and I know there's not enough manpower to add new features
> and do basic UI redesign all at once.
>
> Once this document will have reached the critical mass, my plan is to shift
> it to the official wiki, to make contributions easier.

quick remarks :

+ drakauth :
IMHO the big text entry should be kept, and this kind of text entry is
missing in fact in most Mandriva tools, because theses entries allow
to explain what to do, instead of clicking on the help button which
may need to install the drakxtools doc packages
Indeed, the radio buttons should be replaced by combo box

+ network tools : depending on the tools, an interface will be
presented with just the interface name ( eth0 ), or with the interface
name + device info. IMHO we should standardised on the later

+ dialog issues : many dialog used are not standard dialogs. For
exampe we should standard/stock dialogs for Info dialogs, ok/cancel
ones, warning, ... On top of that they will use gtk stocks icons, and
sounds events associated to theses dialogs will be correct

+ dialog with text : contrary to drakauth for example, many dialog are
not using a text widget for the top part ( when there's less than 3
lines of text ). The issue is that often you have text alignment or
wrapping issues because this is just some standard label text widgets.

> Hope this help.
> Cheers,
>
> Luis
>
> PS:
> This bug shows what is IMHO the most urgent improvement:
> http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=31857
>



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