On Wed, 10 May 2017 21:42:52 +0200 Jonathan Aquilina <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net> said:
> Hi All, > > If anything I owe everyone an apology as I started this kind of debate > on IRC when I mentioned maybe starting a UX team where i would focus on > the user experience of various aspects of e. So apologies for any issues > caused here. i think this is a good idea. filing bugs with "this is an artefact - remove it. it makes it unreadable" is not the way to go about it though. making statements of FACT like "unreadable" requires more than just making the statement or quoting 2 or 3 people. you need to do some studies. e.g. flash the time up for 0.2 seconds then hide it... then rate how many people can accurately tell you the time. do this with or without the shadowed images. get decent enough stats to account for outliers. even if there is a "5% better reading ability" there is still a mater of weighing up design, styling vs raw usability too. someone has to make a judgement call in the end. generally when anyone says "that's unreadable" i instantly start ignoring everything else. when you speak in superlatives it had better be obviously just that. it's not. its far far far more subtle. improving ux is a very broad thing. part of it is purely aesthetic and this is often at the whim of fashion and personal preference. part is actually measurable usability like the above. i'm all for improving ux. but there has to be a distinction between subjective and objective. :) > --- > Regards, > > Jonathan Aquilina > > On 2017-05-10 11:43, PaulTT wrote: > > > i think it's like this on purpose > > i like it this way very much ;P > > > > On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 5:48 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt...@o-sinc.com> > > wrote: > > > >> This is ridiculous. The default theme makes the clock look bad. I > >> opened a bug on such. I also recently found at least 1 way to fix such > >> ugly issues. > >> > >> I do not appreciate the ticket having been closed twice now over > >> semantics. This is a valid bug. The clock looks horrible by default. As > >> seen in the attached screenshot. > >> > >> https://phab.enlightenment.org/T5375 > >> > >> This is a valid bug/issue and should not be closed till resolved in > >> the current theme. > >> > >> -- > >> William L. Thomson Jr. > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------ > >> ------------------ > >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > >> _______________________________________________ > >> enlightenment-devel mailing list > >> enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
