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[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I just spent some time on your mockup to change some alignments,
button organization etc. I also added a spinner to indicate that
"something is on". I updated the mockups in the repository. Feel to
modify whatever you want. I'm also attaching the .svg for convenience.

Bertrand

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Luca Invernizzi <invernizzi.l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 02:21:17PM +0200, Luca Invernizzi wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > On 20/05/10 00:48, Luca Invernizzi wrote:
>>> >> My ui (listing only). Don't consider alignment and such, it's just a
>>> >> sketch.
>>
>> I fixed up a few alignments here and there.
>> (P.S. if you turn on the grid (hotkey is '#' i.e. shift+3) it helps with
>> aligning stuff.)
> Thanks! I didn't know about that. Anyway, for me # is AltGr+à, because
> we Italians think that AltGr is a fine key that is under-used ^_^
>>
>>> >> Optionally, we can add beside the listing of the backend the name of
>>> >> the synced tags in a color similar to the preview of the tasks in gtg
>>> >
>>> > Nice sketch, consistency with empathy is a good thing.
>>> >
>>> > I agree with your suggestion of putting tags (with colors) altogether with
>>> > the backends listing. We should see what it will look like of course, but I
>>> > think it's an important information.
>>> >
>>> > A small remark: you have "quit", "apply" and "cancel" buttons below. If we
>>> > follow GNOME guidelines, it should rather be an "instant apply" dialog. I
>>> > think you'd better have a "Close" button, and no cancel/apply. If the idea
>>> > was to explicitely demand to sync tasks, maybe you could have a "Synchronize
>>> > task" instead.
>>> Ok. I think it would be better to explicitely demand the sync. People
>>> have to understand that once they press that button their configuration
>>> will be used to fetch tasks because, once it's pressed, it will be hard
>>> to undo what's happening.
>>
>> One thought is that this could be a toggle button, in which case it
>> could also take care of the "[] enable" checkbox as well.  That would
>> remove one bit of clutter and (IMHO) make it a bit clearer to the user
>> what state things are in.
> I like that idea! Mockup updated.
>>
>>> Anyway, I've made a inkscape version, as you suggested, which is now available
>>> in lp:~gtg-user/gtg/backends-ui.
>>
>> Sweet, hope my changes help.  :-)
>>
>> Bryce
>>
>
> Attaching current mockup for your convenience.
>
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Bertrand Rousseau

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