[Sugar-devel] User Interface Anoyances and Bugs in the latest Sugar On A Stick build dated 23 of February, 2009

[David Farning]

This is not noise at all!

The day Sugar Labs starts to consider feedback and bug reports from
users as _noise_ is the day we close up emacs and start pushing XP:(

david

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Eduardo H. Silva <hoboprimate at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tomeu assured me that I wouldn-t be creating noise in the mailing list
> if I sent you these nitpicks, some small, some large, some recent,
> some old, so here goes my todays list of:
>
>  User Interface Anoyances and  Bugs in the latest Sugar On A Stick
> build dated 23 of February, 2009:
>
>              1 - In Read, the zoom to width icon resembles more a
> zoom to fit, i.e.,
> zoom out sufficiently so that the document corners are visible inside
> the magnifying glass, i.e., show the entire document inside the
> magnifying glass. Either change the icon or the default action (I
> prefer the later option).
>               2 - After clicking a toolbar icon (tested in Read), you
> cant reveal its
> palette unless you exit and reenter the icon with the cursor.
>               3 - Clicking on a video at archive.org, downloads the
> ogg video, instead
> of streaming. What should be the default? The right-click palette
> (that allows one to download a link) is not as discoverable as the
> rest of the UI.
>               4 - The right-click palette of weblinks say #copy#, but
> copy what? I can
> figure it-s about copying the url, but will a kid know. It should be
> spelled out as #copy link#
>               5 - Right-click palettes in Browse don-t disappear
> unless you choose one
> of its options. They should work like other palettes in the UI,
> disappear after a bit when you exit the cursor away from it.
>               6 - The right-click palette are totally undiscoverable
> because they need
> an explicit right-click action to appear. I vote to test having it
> appear on hover, with a bigger delay than normal palettes and see if
> the feedback is really that bad as you expect it to be (i.e., that
> navigating webpages full of images and links will make palettes appear
> everywhere. Fix number 5, and increase the timer on it appearing on
> hover, and it wont be bad, I think).
>
>            7 - The text size of some Text boxes and options are too small in
> contrast with the rest of the UI. Some automatic adjustment should be
> made between the screen resolution and the font size.
>             8 - When clicking a link in GMail, the page doesnt load
> unless you click Stop and Reload it.
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