[Bug 296943] New: copy/paste feature is great, but are the icons intuitive?

Fania Bremmer fania.bremmer at basyskom.com
Wed Mar 28 07:57:43 UTC 2012


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296943

            Bug ID: 296943
          Severity: wishlist
           Version: unspecified
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: active at kde.org
           Summary: copy/paste feature is great, but are the icons
                    intuitive?
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: fania.bremmer at basyskom.com
          Hardware: Meego/Harmattan
            Status: NEW
         Component: General
           Product: Active

2012-03-27-15-24-basyskom-plasma-active-testing-meego-usb-live.iso 

In a small usability testing, I tested the current implementation of the
copy/paste feature for text.

These are my findings:
- the touch area of the buttons is too small, I would recommend to make it
double the current size
- the buttons are too close to each other - better have one button width space
between them
- the feature in itself is great, but the icon metaphor was not recognized by
everyone. I know that in KDE and windows the same icon language is used, but
here I heard interpretations like "Duplicate" and "add new page". Maybe a small
label underneath the icons would make the action easier to understand? 
- The order of the icons irritated me. Normally we say "Copy and paste". And
normally this is the order the user takes: first copy the text you need, then
paste them. Currently we have the buttons ordered in "paste" then "copy" - was
there a specific reason to do so?

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