Since september 2006, i tried to think over an interface that could be intuitive for beginners (my father is getting a PC for the 1st time)
I've chosen Epiphany for its smart bookmark incredible function. Here is my proposal for Epiphany : http://hiboox.com/lang-fr/resultat.php?img=v69l9g3i.png A) At the center of the toolbar there is back button, next button and location bar since i think they are the most important of the UI B) 1°) near the location bar are the go button and bookmark button since both of them are related to the content of location bar (that's why location bar, go button and bookmark button sit between seperators) 2°) At the left side of the location bar, you have back button and next button as said before, but no stop button or reload button : - stop button seems useless considering you have to reach it very fast with modern connections. Instead of the stop button, the back button seems more appropriate to fix errors that the user could make. - reload button seems useless considering that you got the same result with the go button. 3°) Close to the back button, the history button which is a kind of super back button. And close to the history button is the bookmark database button which works a bit like the history button. 4°) On the other side of the toolbar are zoom in and zoom out buttons : quite usefull for beginners. You can also place the find button there. C°) The bookmark bar should be activated with a bookmark on it (for discoverabilty purpose) : maybe the epiphany presentation page ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/ ) could be that bookmark PS : i find the actual location bar intimidated (too big i guess, and not enough connected to the toolbar since it takes place in a second line) and sometimes not enough visible (location bar is too close of the web page : both are white elements when the web page and the location bar are empty which make the location bar hardly visible). I use that configuration every day and i don't feel the need to have stop or reload button. Besides, The Help navigator on my ubuntu system doesn't have them either http://scorgie.org/UHC-Feisty.png _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
