Re: Revisit "your name on the top bar"

2011-07-05 Thread Calum Benson
rally, not just in > documentation, but also in marketing materials, design documents and > so on. Also, from an accessibility perspective, screenreaders will need a recognisable and useful name to announce to the user when necessary. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Or

Re: Interesting Open Source Tools

2010-09-10 Thread Calum Benson
ere: <http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/technicalpublications/whitepapers/translation_technology_sun.html> I forget if the Translation Editor was open sourced at that point, but it is now: <https://open-language-tools.dev.java.net> Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Cor

Re: Construction sentences with embedded widgets (was: String changes in gnome-keyring)

2010-09-07 Thread Calum Benson
e after which to forget password: [widget] But you could certainly argue that the resultant wording is often a little more forced, and the resultant layout may still not be possible to replicate in every language anyway. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporati

Re: [Fwd: Desktop User Guide Section 1.2.2 Window Shortcut Keys]

2010-08-25 Thread Calum Benson
ps it should? Holding Shift snaps the edge of the window being moved/resized to the nearest window edge in that direction, or to the edge of the desktop itself if no such window edge exists. I'm sure somebody else can word that better :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interac

[gnome-themes] Created branch gnome-2-32

2010-08-02 Thread Calum Benson
The branch 'gnome-2-32' was created pointing to: ab47cc2... Remove empty "gtk-themes/Clearlooks" directory ___ gnome-doc-list mailing list gnome-doc-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list

[gnome-themes] Created branch gnome-2-30

2010-04-20 Thread Calum Benson
The branch 'gnome-2-30' was created pointing to: 26ef96f... Fix doap file ___ gnome-doc-list mailing list gnome-doc-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list

Re: Images in topic titles

2010-01-27 Thread Calum Benson
correctly-themed application icon is used, otherwise that 'visual hint' is potentially meaningless and confusing. E.g. nearly all the application icons in the High Contrast theme are (or are supposed to be) quite different from the gnome/tango/hicolor versions. Cheeri, Calum

Re: Updating outdated GNOME programming books

2009-09-22 Thread Calum Benson
r right now, as it really needs a significant rewrite in the near future. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions

gnome-themes branched for 2.28

2009-09-22 Thread Calum Benson
Have just created gnome-2-28 branch of gnome-themes, for bugfixes and translations only. Development will continue on master. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comOpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com

[gnome-themes] Created branch gnome-2-28

2009-09-22 Thread Calum Benson
The branch 'gnome-2-28' was created pointing to: 2f7a224... Post-release version bump. ___ gnome-doc-list mailing list gnome-doc-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list

gnome-themes branched

2009-04-15 Thread Calum Benson
Have just branched gnome-themes for 2.26. Feature development should continue on trunk, gnome-2-26 is for translations and bugfixes only. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.comJava Desktop System Group http

Re: freeze break request - WAS: Re: Help with strings for "solution" for desktop file "virus" problem

2009-02-27 Thread Calum Benson
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 17:35 +, Calum Benson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 15:00 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > Hmm, what do you propose to use then? Using "Executable" in the UI > > sounds pretty lame, its an implementation detail after all. > >

Re: freeze break request - WAS: Re: Help with strings for "solution" for desktop file "virus" problem

2009-02-25 Thread Calum Benson
Unsafe application launcher The creator of "%s" did not mark it as safe to launch. Before continuing, you are advised to check that the launcher came from a reputable source. [Launch Anyway] [Mark as Safe] [Cancel] Cheeri, Calum. -

Re: freeze break request - WAS: Re: Help with strings for "solution" for desktop file "virus" problem

2009-02-25 Thread Calum Benson
ning on at least one GNOME-based secure desktop I'm aware of (Trusted Solaris-- which is the only one I've used, but I wouldn't be surprised if it applied to others, too). Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.com

gnome-themes branched

2008-09-22 Thread Calum Benson
Have just branched gnome-themes for 2.24. Feature development should continue on trunk, gnome-2-24 is for translations and bugfixes only. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http

Re: Fwd: Universal Access icon

2008-09-04 Thread Calum Benson
#x27; as their Universal Access symbol-- a term that we might want to consider adopting ourselves.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any

Re: Word-a-Day: cancel, stop

2008-08-12 Thread Calum Benson
page. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems ___

Re: Word-a-Day: cursor, insertion point, pointer

2008-08-08 Thread Calum Benson
he insertion point is shown as a blinking line or a blinking rectangle. I'd be slightly wary of the "blinking" part--that's a user preference, although it is the default. Would there be any reason to give the "blinking line or blinking rectangle" a name as well

Re: Word-a-Day: cancel, stop

2008-08-08 Thread Calum Benson
ides in my time that explicitly discourage their use. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not nece

Re: Bugzilla CCs (Was: Re: Freedesktop sound theme support in gnome-control-center trunk)

2008-08-06 Thread Calum Benson
f you cc usability-maint, the usability keyword gets added automatically, and/or vice versa. (I think I asked once before if that was possible, but it wasn't at the time...) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Word-a-Day: delete an entry in a user defined list -> "Clear"?

2008-07-29 Thread Calum Benson
and one "Clear" (or "Delete Custom Message") menu entry. Why so many? If you had one dialog that let you manage custom status messages, could you potentially reduce those four menu items down to one? Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsyste

Re: Word-a-Day: delete an entry in a user defined list -> "Clear"?

2008-07-28 Thread Calum Benson
ut I'm not sure I understand enough from your description either... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and n

Re: Freedesktop sound theme support in gnome-control-center trunk

2008-07-28 Thread Calum Benson
nothing personal, just a gentle reminder to everyone :) Cheeri, Calum. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=115033&action=view -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calu

Re: Terminology: "exit" versus "quit"

2008-07-02 Thread Calum Benson
rks for me. That's what I was trying to get at with my distinction between GUI labels and their descriptions, but you just summarised it better :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http:

Re: Terminology: "exit" versus "quit"

2008-07-01 Thread Calum Benson
so quit. quit Definition: To abruptly stop an application, without necessarily completing current tasks. Quit implies a sudden or unexpected cessation of activity. Usage: Normal text rules. Tags: Prose tag rules. Example: To quit the application without saving your current project,

Re: GNOME Accessibility Guide - open change review

2008-06-25 Thread Calum Benson
dialog. But I can see how it would still fit here, too. § 5.2.2 Configuring the Keyboard Possibly saving the worst news till last: This whole section needs revising I'm afraid; the Keyboard Accessibility preferences have changed completely. (They're now in the Accessibility

Re: Two-words and one-words GUI elements

2008-06-03 Thread Calum Benson
On 26 Apr 2008, at 18:40, Shaun McCance wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 16:50 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: >> >> My guess would be that it's to get around the fact that "check" is >> largely an Americanism[1]. (Would be interesting to try and get in &g

Re: Word-a-Day: progress bar, progress indicator

2008-04-30 Thread Calum Benson
#x27;t know about Banshee's implementation, but potentially such an indicator might be themeable anyway. In which case it may not look like a 'disk' at all for any given user, which suggests that it might be better just to stick with the more generic 'indicator' as far as

Re: Word-a-Day: button, command button, toggle button

2008-04-26 Thread Calum Benson
ouse buttons *do*. Also, if I was told to "press" a mouse button I'd probably interpret that as "click and hold". Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs

Re: Two-words and one-words GUI elements

2008-04-26 Thread Calum Benson
of the Apple/MS style guides to hear their rationale in some cases, though... wonder if any of our doc writers at Sun have some contacts there.) Cheeri, Calum. [1] Maybe I'm doing "check" a dis-service, I'm not so familiar with the Canadian and Antipodean vernacular :) -- C

Re: Word-a-Day preview round

2008-04-24 Thread Calum Benson
#x27; a checkbox actually implies 'focusing' it to me, although obviously the correct word for that is, er... 'focusing'.). Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.su

Re: Word-a-Day: capplet, preference tool

2008-04-24 Thread Calum Benson
hough... maybe we could leverage the Preferences/Administration split on the menus? E.g. refer to the "Mouse preferences window" or "Appearances window" for per-user settings, and the "Network administration window" or "Time and Date administration windo

Re: Word-a-Day: capplet, preference tool

2008-04-24 Thread Calum Benson
t > common term. Hmm, which distro are you looking at? I'm looking at GNOME 2.22 on Solaris, and "Configuration" doesn't appear anywhere on the menus. (The title bars on the windows themselves are a bit inconsistent, but only in that some of them say "Preferences

Re: Word-a-Day preview round

2008-04-24 Thread Calum Benson
pple, Microsoft) I prefer the non-compound version of all of these except "tool bar", but it's hard to say why. Some of the compound ones (esp. "statusbar") just don't look right as words, whereas "toolbar" probably looks okay because it's so

Re: Two-words and one-words GUI elements

2008-04-24 Thread Calum Benson
ll them a "group of > options", and you ask the user to "choose one of the following > options". Or call them "option buttons", as some toolkits have done in the past. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Irelan

Re: Word-a-Day: button, command button, toggle button

2008-04-24 Thread Calum Benson
nd odd IMHO. But I admit they're kind of necessary when the label is quoted. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum

gnome-themes branched

2008-04-21 Thread Calum Benson
Have just branched gnome-themes for 2.23; the gnome-2-22 branch is now for translations and bugfixes only please. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com

Re: Word-a-Day: capplet, preference tool

2008-04-18 Thread Calum Benson
s with the > word "Preferences", use this form for any buttons or > launchers, but use the title without the word > "Preferences" for the menu item in a Preferences menu. Isn't this more of a HIG concern than a GDSG concern? Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usabilit

Re: Word-a-Day: capplet, preference tool

2008-04-18 Thread Calum Benson
asked for anything called 'settings' or 'options' to be changed to 'preferences' where at all possible. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Des

Re: Word-a-Day: capplet, preference tool

2008-04-18 Thread Calum Benson
should we use "window"? Where's Greg Merchan when you need him? :) He always had strong views on windows v dialogs... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun

Re: Word-a-Day Bonus Round: screencast

2008-04-03 Thread Calum Benson
on the context. "Screencast" strongly suggests (to me) video that has been captured specifically for the purpose of broadcasting, most likely over the internet. "Video screen capture" (to use that suggestion for the sake of argument), like "screenshot", doesn&

Re: Changed name and location for AT capplet

2008-02-14 Thread Calum Benson
On 14 Feb 2008, at 18:23, Calum Benson wrote: > > On 9 Feb 2008, at 20:46, Luca Ferretti wrote: > >> * Renamed launcher as "Accessibility Technologies" (not Tecnology) >> * Renamed dialog title as "Accessibility Technologies Preferences" >> * Moved

Re: Changed name and location for AT capplet

2008-02-14 Thread Calum Benson
ity I'm confused, didn't we decide to s/Accessibility/Universal Access a while ago? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376324 -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum

gnome-themes branched

2007-10-15 Thread Calum Benson
Have just branched gnome-themes for 2.21/22; the gnome-2-20 branch is now for translations and bugfixes only please. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com

Re: broken link

2007-09-17 Thread Calum Benson
uide/2.19/ instead. Thanks, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Mic

Re: Request for UI break in Yelp

2007-09-06 Thread Calum Benson
nd text, so if a theme can't get rid of it somehow, we shouldn't really have it at all (or it should be moved to somewhere that it's not behind any text). Cheeri, Calum -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome-devel-docs: Some candidates from d.g.o.

2007-09-03 Thread Calum Benson
to work on l.g.o... > > That sounds like a general feature that could be added to > library.gnome.org. Probably not... last time we looked at into it, the tool that did the comparison sucked up vast amounts of CPU for long periods of time, so for the HIG we always just ran it locally and

Re: gnome-devel-docs: Some candidates from d.g.o.

2007-09-03 Thread Calum Benson
GNOME docbook gives you a version with all the diffs from the previous version colour-coded and highlighted?! :) Dunno how we'll get that to work on l.g.o... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group

Re: String change in Evolution.

2007-08-20 Thread Calum Benson
much the same way as we tried to review every UI before major releases at one point. Massive amount of not-very-interesting work, of course, but it could probably make a great difference to the perceived quality of our desktop. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Micr

Re: String change in evolution

2007-08-07 Thread Calum Benson
're going to say "*a* notification message", you should probably also say "*a* tray icon", it just reads better. Also, do we really call it the "tray" in GNOME? I thought its official name was the (status) notification area. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON,

Re: broken link/missing style guide

2007-07-24 Thread Calum Benson
e/ Or: http://web.archive.org/web/2006120601/developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide The particular page Alan is looking for is: http://web.archive.org/web/2006120601/developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/units-2.html Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsys

Re: Upset

2007-06-21 Thread Calum Benson
you should have to do on Ubuntu is type 'sudo' before your usual editing command. If want to avoid the command line altogether, you're free to add a menu item or panel icon that runs 'gksu gedit' (or your editor of choice), then you're just a click away from a graphical t

Re: XML/Docbook editor

2007-05-17 Thread Calum Benson
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:33 -0500, Benjamin Gramlich wrote: > What editors do you folks suggest for creating/editing Docbook files? There aren't really any good WYSIAWYG docbook editors, but if you don't mind Java, I quite like jEdit. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usabi

gnome-themes branched

2007-04-09 Thread Calum Benson
Have just branched gnome-themes for 2.20; translations and bugfixes only on gnome-2-18 branch please. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819

Re: Possible UI Freeze Break in Clearlooks

2007-02-16 Thread Calum Benson
ng crosses for checkboxes years ago, because a lot of people associated a cross with "wrong" or "no", and thus "not selected". Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group h

Re: Request for very small UI change in Tomboy

2007-02-09 Thread Calum Benson
dialog could check for and list only those sources that were available at that moment in time.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771

Re: GNOME Doc Style Guide missing?

2007-01-21 Thread Calum Benson
after the SVN migration to say that it would break some of the auto-generated docs on the website for a while... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum

Re: Screen Recordings...

2006-10-12 Thread Calum Benson
On 12 Oct 2006, at 14:23, Don Scorgie wrote: > > In a similar vain / vane [1] > [1] I can't decide which is the right word here. Probably because it's neither of them :) (It's "vein"...) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun

gnome-themes branched for 2.16

2006-10-06 Thread Calum Benson
gnome-themes has been branched for 2.16, gnome-2-16 branch is now for bugfixes and translations only. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819

Re: minor suggestion for the GNOME 2.14 Desktop Accessibility Guide

2006-08-17 Thread Calum Benson
ting Windows. Was this really available in 2.14? It looks like it was only added in April: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94682 and 2.14 was released in March... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]G

Re: Announcing new strings for new file in the orca module: orca.desktop.in

2006-08-08 Thread Calum Benson
ould be "on-screen" I think. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are p

Re: Announcing new strings for new file in the orca module: orca.desktop.in

2006-08-08 Thread Calum Benson
we suggested for gnopernicus here? http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityTeam/Menu Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal an

Re: automated screenshots (was Re: more doc work, Re: completed gataxx doc)

2006-08-04 Thread Calum Benson
don't want any fancy fading effects at all, in much the same way as watermark-type effects and that sort of thing aren't much fun for them. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System T

Re: Introductory GNOME Basics Tutorial

2006-08-01 Thread Calum Benson
GNOME 2.8 on top of Debian Sarge). Sacrilege... you can run GNOME on old Sun machines as well you know :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771

Re: Screenshots in help

2006-07-24 Thread Calum Benson
On 22 Jul 2006, at 19:32, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > > I *knew* I'd read about scaling them down somewhere! Possibly from my email in March :) http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2006-March/msg00232.html Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsyst

Re: admiting to our flaws

2006-07-12 Thread Calum Benson
a "known issues" section at the end. Then you could even just remove that section altogether for stable releases, because apps aren't "stable" if they have any bugs that are so bad that you have to mention them in the user guide, right? :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENS

Re: Keyboard shortcut prefs - can we close this bug ?

2006-07-10 Thread Calum Benson
-keyboard.html#shortcuts (Tables 10.12 - 10.14, mainly). Likewise, out of all our docs, the accessibility guide has probably the most comprehensive section on keyboard navigation, and it needs maintaining too: http://gnome.org/learn/access-guide/latest/keynav-0.html Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BEN

Re: Getting the info

2006-04-05 Thread Calum Benson
On 5 Apr 2006, at 12:23, Calum Benson wrote: On 5 Apr 2006, at 10:21, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Actually, it's a very old feature. I don't want to fire up my linux box just to check, but I'm sure I've not seen it before... but I could be wrong :) Wow, I didn't kn

Re: Getting the info

2006-04-05 Thread Calum Benson
l want to check: * how do you remove a shortcut? I believe you focus the menu item and press Backspace (or possibly Delete). * what happens with you change a shortcut like Paste that should be cross-system -- do all apps change? No, it's all per-app AFAIK. Cheeri, Calum.

Re: gnome-themes branched

2006-04-03 Thread Calum Benson
On 30 Mar 2006, at 20:42, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: implement a low contrast gtk engine to cut down the number of icon files that need maintaining. BTW, what actually is a gtk engine? Basically, it's the code that draws the gtk widge

gnome-themes branched

2006-03-30 Thread Calum Benson
icon files that need maintaining. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsy

Re: User Guide help

2006-03-27 Thread Calum Benson
e: if it's hard to document, it's probably hard to use. (Indeed, it wouldn't be the first project I've worked on where we actually write the hypthetical user guide first, and use that as the first draft of the UI spec.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer

Re: [Usability] Ellipsis on buttons

2006-03-23 Thread Calum Benson
ion of those buttons are, as that's what will be read out by a screenreader. (If they don't have a proper one, that's a bug.) Ccing to the usability list -- does the HIG say anything about this? Should it? Yes, it should probably say "don't have buttons without proper

Re: Gnome Live Wiki Day (and other wiki-ish ideas)?

2006-03-22 Thread Calum Benson
On 22 Mar 2006, at 06:16, Clytie Siddall wrote: I don't use Ubuntu (Mac OSX :) ), Ubuntu runs very nicely on Macs... you should investigate dual- booting :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java De

Re: [Usability] What is the name of this menu?

2006-03-14 Thread Calum Benson
s it's distro- dependent... JDS still ships without a menubar applet turned on by default, for example. I've been saying "The top panel menu" which is a bit wordy. I'm not sure that's a good name anyway; what happens if I put it on my bottom panel instead

Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide

2006-03-10 Thread Calum Benson
een at all, the former... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of S

Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide

2006-03-09 Thread Calum Benson
On 9 Mar 2006, at 05:37, Sean Wheller wrote: On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:06, Calum Benson wrote: Also, PDF accessibility is pretty much zero in GNOME, which would be kind of ironic for the accessibility guide if nothing else... This is a problem of GNOME, not of PDF. Yes, I'm awa

Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide

2006-03-08 Thread Calum Benson
of work. Cheeri, Calum. [1] http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/korn/20050805 -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not n

Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide

2006-03-08 Thread Calum Benson
s a lot of unused space (page borders, space between pages) with no gain regarding readability. Also, PDF accessibility is pretty much zero in GNOME, which would be kind of ironic for the accessibility guide if nothing else... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Mi

Re: Fileselector features

2006-03-01 Thread Calum Benson
On 27 Feb 2006, at 00:26, Danilo Šegan wrote: Ctrl+L allows selecting a file or folder by typing it in (it auto-completes as well). IIRC you can also bring up this box by typing ~ or / (which will also insert that character into the text field). Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability

Re: Avoiding the name of an application in Menus?

2006-02-22 Thread Calum Benson
ed to see the name of the application in a title bar... and if you do, you'd want it to be a short as possible (rather than "Sound Juicer CD Ripper" or "Epiphany Web Browser"), as it's likely to be truncated. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer

Re: getting to panels

2006-02-22 Thread Calum Benson
can tell -- does it have some sort of a name so I can mention it? It's documented in the Bible of GNOME keyboard shortcuts, aka the Accessibility Guide: http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.10/ch03s03.html Very first item :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer

Re: getting to panels

2006-02-22 Thread Calum Benson
10. Long answer: see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82642 Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are person

Re: Avoiding the name of an application in Menus?

2006-02-21 Thread Calum Benson
the prospect of losing their project names. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessa

Re: Avoiding the name of an application in Menus?

2006-02-21 Thread Calum Benson
On 21 Feb 2006, at 11:48, Joachim Noreiko wrote: --- Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 17 Feb 2006, at 12:34, Joachim Noreiko wrote: Or 'File Roller Archive Manager', 'Gedit Text Editor', which is more readable in English. But each language should b

Re: Avoiding the name of an application in Menus?

2006-02-21 Thread Calum Benson
list/2002-July/ msg00845.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-August/ msg0.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-October/ msg00538.html Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Usability] Mini UI reviews

2006-02-20 Thread Calum Benson
ho might need them: http://xhtml.md/misc/epiphany/ui-review/ Cool, thanks. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are person

Re: [Usability] Mini UI reviews

2006-02-16 Thread Calum Benson
/ too late, I would say... it would have to be done on Monday now, which is a full week after the string freeze. Cc'ing gnome-docs and gnome-i18n though (and snipping usability list), to see if they would consider it too late. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer

Re: gnome-screensaver UI review changes

2006-02-15 Thread Calum Benson
suggestions we had yesterday... I just thought it might make the dialog look a little "stretched out", which is why I suggested trying to get them both on the same row instead. Always difficult to say without seeing it for real, though :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engi

Re: gnome-screensaver UI review changes

2006-02-15 Thread Calum Benson
in 2.16 when we've had more time to think about it. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are

Re: our online docs

2006-02-09 Thread Calum Benson
On 8 Feb 2006, at 19:23, Shaun McCance wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:30 +, Calum Benson wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:41 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: I generally try to avoid bringing my employer into these threads, to make it clear that my involvement with Gnome is entirely my own

Re: our online docs

2006-02-08 Thread Calum Benson
uments.wolfram.com/ Or http://docs.sun.com ;) (Albeit not quite so pretty at the top level.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 An

Re: What's the plan for the user guide?

2006-02-08 Thread Calum Benson
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 12:17 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 12:40 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > > > First point of contact to ask about the copyright issues would > > probably > > be Dee, the aformentioned manager who's still here and sitting ri

Re: What's the plan for the user guide?

2006-02-07 Thread Calum Benson
hey're probably not keeping up with GNOME developments. First point of contact to ask about the copyright issues would probably be Dee, the aformentioned manager who's still here and sitting right next to me :) If you have her email address, feel free to contact her, or I can try and

Re: gnome-themes branched

2005-10-03 Thread Calum Benson
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 16:54 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > I've just branched gnome-themes for 2.12. Well okay, for 2.13, but the branch is called gnome-2-12 :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java

gnome-themes branched

2005-10-03 Thread Calum Benson
I've just branched gnome-themes for 2.12. You know the drill; bugfixes and translations only to gnome-2-12 branch (and HEAD) from now on please, and funky stuff to HEAD only. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: String review

2005-09-22 Thread Calum Benson
On 22 Sep 2005, at 12:14, Calum Benson wrote: On 21 Sep 2005, at 19:49, Christian Persch wrote: To fix this, I think we need: - a String Guidelines addendum to the HIG. The HIG already tells us what capitalisation to use in which circumstances; we need a complete style guide; I&#

Re: String review

2005-09-22 Thread Calum Benson
mentationProject) to list the messages that people most want to see, and decide on their wording before adding them to the HIG? Seems like it would get a bit unwieldy to do it in a bug report. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mai

Re: Sun documentation team.

2005-05-25 Thread Calum Benson
e'll see them contributing again in future. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Team http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and n

gnome-themes branched for 2.10

2005-03-07 Thread Calum Benson
gnome-themes is now branched for 2.10. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of

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