On Thursday 06 September 2012, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > - One big problem still in there is the fact that the drag & drop "ghost" > is not shown while the finger is still positioned over any resource icon. > This gives the impression that the dragging wasn't recognized until you > drag past the other resource icons. I just did a "one person usability > test" on this and the outcome was pretty much disastrous. The user simply > thought that dragging didn't work at all. > The dragging operation definitely needs to be visualized right after it's > started.
not sure what do you mean, the operation starts when the finger is moved, like on the desktop, can't be started before.. > Then there a few things that could still be optimized (although I don't see > them as a must-have for PA3): > - The drag & drop "ghost" feels a little weird with the vertical offset. > Placing it directly at the cursor position would certainly make the > dragging feel more direct. The problem would of course be that you > couldn't see where you're dragging anymore. Could the ghost be made yeah, i plan to change after pa3, atm there is no api for that, so would mean a dependency from kde 4.10 ;) > slightly transparent? - The "Current Activity" filter is nice, but it > would be much more useful if the Activitieswere drop targets like the > tags. That way users could very easily add resources to activities without > having to go through SLC or the Add Items dialog for each association. > - I think the concave effect actually does help users to recognize that > they can drop stuff "into" tags. Could you make the "holes" a little > deeper to make it even more clear? yeah, that can be done > > We also definitely need much more extensive testing compared to the > > previous release. There are many small things which are often affected > > by regressions (especially everything related to Activities and > > resources) that only show when you actually try to _use_ your device > > (like moving files from and to USB sticks, adding and removing resources > > of many different kinds to Activities, using private Activities etc.). > > It often happens to me that when I install an image on my Wetab and play > > around with it a bit, everything seems fine. But then when I use it more > > extensively, problems start appearing all over the place. And I > > personally would like to be able to show PA3 to someone without having > > to fear that he or she might do something that I causes all sorts of > > bugs to pop up. > > There are still some bugs left which I'd call release blockers, I'll add > comments to the corresponding reports. > what are those you think are the worse ones? Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Active mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
