User Usability and Layout Complaints

[Ian Monroe]

On 6/27/06, Kelly Miyashiro <mallow005 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
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> --
>
> I also said that I've had interest from other people in forming a usability
> testing team here in San Diego, and I thought that other regional usability
> testing would be nice to find cultural differences (since culture is
> definitely a factor). For example, someone mentioned that the placement of
> the sidebar should be user controlled. Although there will probably be some
> small user base that would like it on the right, most left-to-right reading
> cultures will want it on the left,

Actually Qt has a left-to-right thing where its supposed to flip
everything. I think it doesn't work that well for Amarok, but its just
a manner of fixing it.

>much like the logos on most webpages are
> best placed in the upper left.
>
> Sorry for the long email!
>
> Summary: How is usability currently addressed in amaroK?

Through discussions in IRC, how most of our decisions are made.

Ian Monroe