Hey Jesse, I think this is a great idea. I have one to add:
10. From the user's perspective, what form will photo and music management take? What sort of interaction would a user perform to reach his music library? On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jesse Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday, Quentin, Eric and I had a discussion on SILC about what the > user experience (and, at some level, the developer experience) should > look like under Etoile when interacting with Documents. Rather than > debating the merits of each of our points, I'd rather just ask a > series of questions that I hope gets to everyone's vision of the > interaction model. > > 1. How does a user create a new (generic) Document? What menu steps > must they walk through? > > 2. Assuming a user wants a specific Document type (say, a vector art > document that can be easily converted to SVG), what steps must they > walk through to get their original generic Document into a format > easily converted to that specific type? > > 3. If a user wants to then edit that (now SVG-friendly) Document, how > do they launch the proper tools/palettes? > > 4. When in editing mode, what app should be represented in the > system's Menu bar? > > 5. When a user closes (hides/puts away) the current Document, what > methods can they use to reopen it? > > 6. What happens when a user selects on a specific object (a bar graph, > for example) within a compound Document? What happens when a user > wants to edit that object? How do they initiate that process? > > 7. How does a user manage the various Services on their system? > Through what type of UI? > > 8. How are those Services organized? > > 9. How does a user get new Services on their system? > > > Getting answers to these questions should help with some of the > specifics of how applications work and are integrated in Etoile. > Thanks in advance for contributions. > > > J. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss > _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
