On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 21:01:07 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi everyone, > as suggested by notmart, I fired up Pencil ( http://pencil.evolus.vn/ ) to > draw a mockup of my first ideas for a task-centric UI. Since that is what > we need most urgently, I started with a way to initiate file-creation > tasks. Following Shantanu's idea that the Add Items dialog would be a good > place to create new files (if a user creates a new file in PA, she is most > likely to do so in the context of an Activity) and considering Marco's > concern that the Add Items dialog is already pretty crowded with elements, > I thought "Why not putting new files on the same level as existing files? > From a user's perspective, why should the process be any different?" > So as you can see in "Add Items Dialog With New Files.png", I've just > inserted the different kinds of new documents into the list of files. If > the user selects one of them and taps "Add Items", the Add Items dialog is > replaced by the "New Text Document Dialog". This dialog lists the > available tasks involving the creation of text documents. Tapping one of > the tasks starts it. > The tasks I put in there may not be very good examples since there are > better entry points for them (like a contact or an event), but those were > already discussed in our two meetings so they came to my mind first ;) > I don't know if it's technically feasible to merge the "New XXX" icons with > the list of existing files, I just did what I felt made sense form a user's > perspective. > > I've also attached the Pencil file in case somebody would like to modify it > (if your Oxygen icons are located in /usr/share/icons/oxygen, they should > be found. > > So, as always: Feedback welcome! > > Cheers, > Thomas
This is very interesting. I don't have much feedback but I just want to raise one issue that creating new stuff (documents in my case) need to take into account: templates. Sometimes you want to create a new completely empty document. Sometimes you want to create something from an existing template. Sometimes you even want to create a new document from an old one but that is another matter. Just don't forget templates when you design the interaction. -Inge _______________________________________________ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active