On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 15:06 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote: > > Mozilla is coming up with a new Add-ons Manager UI for Firefox. I was > asked > what Linux-specific stuff should be designed and how much should be > specified, because the look and feel depends on the DE's settings. I > said > that all I can think of at that time is that it should follow the GTK+ > "skinning" of XUL like how other XUL elements do it, because the > Add-ons > Manager doesn't yet (in Firefox 4.0 Beta 4). > >
Hi, I'm wondering about the two-gear button, in the upper right next to the Search interface. It doesn't look like any other button around it has rounded corners, icons not aligned to the borders of the button, different horizontal height compared to the search field. -- The main list "Name" and "Last Updated" should probably be a "real" list (compare to a mail client/file manager) to indicate sorting, with the arrow up/down for sorting rather than shading the background. What significance does the left/right arrow in the upper-ish left part have? They _seem_ to control the tab you have active, but does it do something else? Why doesn't the ui use the same back/Forward buttons of the main browser? the tab selections look very out of place, not to mention that the top left tab isn't even aligning to the display part, but cause a jarring gap between them. The search field isn't visually aligned on the right hand, causing the window to look out of proportion once again. Left/Right alignment of the icon in the search field appears inconsistent with other applications in the platform ( Gnome typically has a "clear the search field" brush on the right) "View recent updates" slowly fades in a new tab ( that may just be a performance issue) on the right, which also appears "wrong" The bevel around the main white area doesn't look like anything else on the platform. Design choice? Just some notes, thankyou! _______________________________________________ usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
