On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Diego Oliveira <loki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Adrian Buehlmann <adr...@cadifra.com>wrote:
>
>> [putting this back to the list where it belongs]
>>
>> On 01.10.2009 19:47, Diego Oliveira wrote:
>> > So,
>>
>> Two general things first:
>>
>> - Please don't top post in replies to list threads. It's annoying.
>> - Please cc to the list (if possible, of course there might be private
>> things to say, but most likely not in this specific reply)
>>
>
> Ok... Ok...., everybody make mistakes!!!
>
>
>>
>> > Talking about the ui gurus, is very important to design to the eternal
>> > intermediates (Emotional Design, Donald
>> > Norman<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Norman>),
>>
>> Can you elaborate on that? What does that mean for the specific question
>> at hand?
>>
>> You most likely can't expect me to read that book to find out what you
>> mean
>> here.
>>
>>
> The book is really fantastic, but make a long history short, ~= 70% of the
> user are
> in the intermediate level (I'm coordinating the implementation of mercurial
> as the primary
> version control system in the company I work and I can ensure that) and the
> ui is getting
> a lot of more information, hence is very important to make the user
> comfortable about what
> the new signals and colors mean. I'm the one that sometimes get confused
> about what the
> color means.
>
The default color scheme is probably less than helpful to most users. I've
been thinking for a while to get rid of it, so your choices are 'color by
author' or 'black'. Plus the green for incoming/new.
>
>
>> > we need to put somewhere the the information of what color and symbols
>> mean.
>> >
>> > I think the better place is in the status bar, in the window's bottom
>>
>> Better than what?
>>
>> Can you be a bit more specific, please?
>>
>>
>>
> The ui has a lot of controls and may be dificult to find other place with
> space
> to put the information.
>
By the way, Henrik is working on a patch that will add tooltips to the
changeset menus.
--
Steve Borho
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