What I meant was to have a popup full of formatted choices which look like the thing you want to have. So instead of "Page # of #", which is pretty abstract, "Page 1 of 2". Also, instead of have six places where you can list five different things (Firefox has five, two of which are variants of each other), just have two popups each with all 48 sensible combinations. Well, OK, that's a little excessive, but maybe someone can think of a better something to constrain that. Personally, I don't think a popup with 48 items which are easy to navigate (because each item is only a small edit-distance from the previous one) is materially worse than three popups with 5 items. It's sort of like the search suggest popup, it's easy to navigate because things are constrained by what you've typed so far.
Just in case it was the contents that was confusing, I mean instead of three independently-settable positions, show a formatted cell made up of the literal bits from the page, arranged as they would be shown on the output. So in your png, the single Header: popup would show a cell with the left-justified title and right-justified URL and nothing in the middle. When you pop it up the change things, you'd get the different variations to choose from, again formatted with the literal items from the page you're printing. -scott On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Mohamed Mansour <m0.interact...@gmail.com> wrote: > I removed the options part to give a more visualized idea: > http://i41.tinypic.com/syvz7p.png > Scott, I agree headers / footers are confusing everywhere, can you elaborate > on how we can do inline header/footer representation. I was thinking of the > same thing, but I thought it would be confusing for the user to actually > click that area, unless it is visually appealing. Ideas? > > -- Mohamed Mansour > > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Scott Hess <sh...@chromium.org> wrote: >> >> I think the headers and footers are confusing (everywhere). Why not >> just a single popup for each selection which displays a real-time view >> of each thing? So it might have items like: >> >> Header: "Bonsai Kitten >> http://www.shorty.com/bonsaikitten/"; >> Footer: "Page 1 of 2 June 2, >> 2009" >> >> Even better if it were in-line in the box that shows the page (header >> above, footer below). Also better if it integrates with the margins, >> since the header and footer presumably take up some space, showing how >> that space is reclaimed might be valuable. >> >> -scott [not a UI designer, I hate almost all print panels, they almost >> always make what I want hard to do] >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <mar...@chromium.org> >> wrote: >> > I like the mock. >> > Glen has a veto on any UI. >> > I think the "Options" is unnecessary until implemented so it can be >> > trimmed >> > off. >> > The inches/mm issue is well done in Microsoft Word where you can type >> > the >> > units you want to use instead of being forced to use one or another. >> > M-A >> > >> > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mohamed Mansour >> > <m0.interact...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi guys, how are you doing? I asked Marc-Antoine about creating a >> >> mock-up >> >> of the print settings so I was looking into different printer >> >> settings user interfaces from various products. >> >> >> >> http://i44.tinypic.com/rka0c5.png >> >> The similarities between them is quite similar, but I really like what >> >> Firefox has done with how they divide their sections, as well, how the >> >> display the marginal data on the fly. They all have the following >> >> things in >> >> common: >> >> >> >> Real-Time displaying of margin changes on the paper >> >> Changing headers / footers and allow custom desc >> >> Page orientations (Landscape and Portrait) >> >> >> >> What I liked about the Microsoft products is that everything is in one >> >> page. The user will not be confused with many >> >> >> >> clicks, and everything is there. But, the sections are not divided, they all look squished. >> >> Here is my initial proposal. >> >> >> >> http://i40.tinypic.com/14ki9w0.png >> >> Only a single page, where the user will enter his format, options (if >> >> any), margins, and header/footer. The components are same as Firefox >> >> but all >> >> in one page. We should probably do a drop down to state which metric to >> >> use >> >> (inch/cm) since only America uses inches. >> >> I have brought my mother to test this, and mind you, she is very new to >> >> computers (very inexperienced), she liked the above version because >> >> everything she needs is in her finger tips and understands it better >> >> than >> >> the others. >> >> So that is my take, what do you think? I would like to send this email >> >> off >> >> to Ben/Glen/Nick since they are the UI team and may have a better UI >> >> perspective on how to do things. Let me know if its allowed to be sent >> >> to >> >> dev mailing list! >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- Mohamed Mansour >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
