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[Matt Richardson <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/02/12 22:37, nick rundy wrote:
> I don't know that it really counts as clutter though. You have to 
> display the "original" path at least once. Repeating it for other 
> entries doesn't really seem to me like it clutters anything.
>
> Plus having the actual entry shift to the left margin makes it 
> difficult to "scan a column" of differing entries. I have to read the 
> original path to its end, then shift focus to the beginning again. 
> Seems like some users might be confused by this.
I'm guessing that's a result of the email formatting. I'm assuming Jo 
meant something more like this:

HUD Mockup <http://ubuntuone.com/1uXVeoS3fDsE0fG3LCon9P>

Apologies if I'm wrong, that's just what I took from it.
Matt


> > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:02:49 +0100
> > From: joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx
> > To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Unity-design] HUD: reduce clutter by removing repeated 
> information
> >
> > Please look at this screenshot: 
> http://ubuntuone.com/501RQqrOW1fh89fsIWhx4z
> >
> > When accessing deep command structures (previously known as menus :)),
> > most of the information in HUD is repeated many times. This creates
> > unnecessary clutter.
> >
> > It would be better to display the submenu as a header and then only
> > lists the menu items under that header. I'm not a great Gimp artist, so
> > I'll use text to illustrate how I think it should be, compared to what
> > you see in the screenshot. [more encodings] represents the search field
> > with input.
> >
> > Current:
> >
> > [more encodings]
> > View > Character Encodings > More Encodings > User Defined
> > View > Character Encodings > More Encodings > Unicode (UTF-16)
> > View > Character Encodings > More Encodings > Middle Eastern
> > View > Character Encodings > More Encodings > SE & SW Asian
> > View > Character Encodings > More Encodings > East Asian
> >
> >
> > My proposal:
> >
> > [more encodings]
> > View > Character Encodings > More Encodings (Non-clickable)
> > User Defined
> > Unicode (UTF-16)
> > Middle Eastern
> > SE & SW Asian
> > East Asian
> >
> >
> > Of course, this was just a quick example I found in the application I
> > was currently using. (Thunderbird) I can imagine scenarios where you
> > have much deeper hierarchies. In those cases, the actual command might
> > have to be shortened because the path is too long. But the command is
> > more important than the path leading to it. I think that needs
> > consideration as a pure usability issue.
> >
> > In any case, I think this would be cleaner than repeating the entire
> > path over and over.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > --
> > Jo-Erlend Schinstad
> >
> >
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