Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from, the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-08 Thread Jacob Beauregard
...@freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5 Message-ID: 1252271778.7237.67.ca...@localhost Content-Type: text/plain On di, 2009-09-01 at 21:21 +0200, Claes H wrote: I would like to add to this a shared

Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-06 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
On di, 2009-09-01 at 21:21 +0200, Claes H wrote: I would like to add to this a shared state / history between open / save dialogs to make it easer to open in one application that was just saved in another application. I don't think something special is needed for this actually. Apps that do a

Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-05 Thread Claes H
Hi, I think this list had lots of valid points. 3. Open/Save dialogs I would like to add to this a shared state / history between open / save dialogs to make it easer to open in one application that was just saved in another application. Claes ___

Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-05 Thread John Tapsell
2009/9/1 Sergey Udaltsov sergey.udalt...@gmail.com: Another issue - stealing focus. In X Window, every app that requests focus, gets it. I think KWin disables focus stealing by default. Either way, you can turn it on focus-stealing-prevention. 2. Primary X Window selection behavior ...

Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-05 Thread Aleksey Shaferov
Please take a look on another problem found by gnome user from country of bears, vodka and balalayka :). I think it is relevant to the usability problems. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-August/010981.html For Russian-speaking people

Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-05 Thread nf2
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Sergey Udaltsovsergey.udalt...@gmail.com wrote: 3. Open/Save dialogs The dialogs are platform-specific, it is a well-known fact. It would not be technically difficult to provide the selection mechanism - allowing user to choose the dialog variant he likes best.

Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-05 Thread A. Walton
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:11 AM, nf2nf2.em...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Sergey Udaltsovsergey.udalt...@gmail.com wrote: 3. Open/Save dialogs The dialogs are platform-specific, it is a well-known fact. It would not be technically difficult to provide the selection

Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-05 Thread nf2
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM, A. Waltonawal...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:11 AM, nf2nf2.em...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Sergey Udaltsovsergey.udalt...@gmail.com wrote: There is one closely related issue - the bookmarking mechanism, used in these

[Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-01 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Preface Recently, there was an interesting discussion concerning desktop standards and usability. Russian-speaking people can read it here: http://aceler.livejournal.com/771037.html I think, the list of discussed issues and conclusions is worth publishing on xdg maillist, so here I am doing my

Re: [Usability] Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-01 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 14:47 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: 5. Global hotkeys are controlled in several places. GNOME apps tend to start gnome-settings-daemon (otherwise they look weird). And g-s-d may grab some shortcuts. If it happens in KDE, the results may be unpredictable - two sets of