On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:34, Jarlath Reidy
<jarlathreidy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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2. happens. And 90% of the time, a killall gnome-panel gets it working again. Surely Gnome panel should attempt to reload it again at least once before producing the delete/don't delete ultimatum? If it really won't load, we should have a slightly better dialog box with a "Report this bug" type feature (how exactly do you report an applet bug?)
Thoughts?
Luke.
I agree with you 100%. I didn't even know how do properly communicate this problem so I never brought it up.
That's the most common reason why someone doesn't report a problem, even though he sees it. Making communication in this area better will make this type of pain go away quickly ;)
Are there any bug reports on this already in upstream gnome?
what's the philo of this?
i see the concept of "Manners" entering the computer. A UI has to have certain manners, which should be taken into consideration while designing it.
Manners are behaviour, and i've been thinking for quite a while now, if we shouldn't start considering modeling the UI after behavioural concepts.
Things that point me into this humanoid design direction are general UI design principles such as:
* fuzzyness / fault tolerance
* make it human-readable
* honor the user's choice
* honor the user's focus
* don't interrupt the user's workflow, unless explicitly requested by him (e.g. phone calls when not set to "busy" or "away")
* design for affordance
* use heavy constraints in order to reduce clutter and UI entropy
* design a predictable UI
and many many more..
why not layout a humanoid character template with a strict set of manners and some general rules for reliable predictable behaviour!?
this would be more of a high level design guide in my eyes, than whether or not to add a dot to a sentence.