Hi Vadim,
Here are my thoughts.
1 - is it important that the user know which setting is currently
active? If so then having this dropdown always visible would be a good
thing. If not, then it adds up to visual clutter.
2 - if the user doesn't need to know the current value of the setting,
then you could consider a solution like your window picker (from the
screenshots section of the website you linked). That way they have a
quicker way to access the profiles, but do not need to always see the
current profile name. Of course then you're stuck with a button visible
all the time, which really doesn't seem to add a lot, other than
reducing the visual clutter by abstracting it all to a single button.
3 - I've installed Shutter (very cool!) and am not quite clear on what
purpose the profiles have. Could you elaborate a bit on how they're
used, possibly with examples?
Kirk
Vadim Peretokin wrote:
Could anyone offer any input on this?
Thank you!
On 3/12/09, *Vadim Peretokin* <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi!
I have a usability question. An application I'm on the developer
team for benefits extensively from different preferences settings,
so it allows the user to make 'profiles' and change them on-the-fly.
One issue that was raised however is that it's too tedious to go
to edit ▸ preferences and choose a new profile, with the
suggestion of instead having a combo box in the main window's
statusbar that would allow profile changing.
I'm wondering if anyone here can suggest a better method or this
one is fine?
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