[Digikam-devel] visual indication of active filters?

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/2/1, Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach at wp.pl>:
>
> Dnia Friday 01 of February 2008, Gilles Caulier napisał:
> > 2008/2/1, Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach at wp.pl>:
> > > Dnia Friday 01 of February 2008, Gilles Caulier napisał:
> > > > Red color is to indicate than something is wrong, dangerous, etc...
> > > >
> > > > This is not the case here. Is just to ping user than filters are
> > > > active. Orange is better for that... But it's just my viewpoint...
> > > >
> > > > Mik, Gerhard ?
> > >
> > > Nice idea. Few ideas for improvements.
> > >
> > > 1. Visual: lack of left-, top-margins looks ugly. LED should be
> > > centered in status bar.
> >
> > Ah, i'm happy to read these word. This is you Mik (:=)))
> >
> > Yes, the widget is not centered... And this is not my fault. The widget
> > come from kdelibs and this is another one badly implemented. The widget
> > drawing method always use the top/left corner as reference. Content is
> > never centered like an usual widget...
>
> During years of observing of other computer users I noticed one really
> strange thing (I am not sarcastic or ironic here, this is  really
> strange for me). Application may be stripped from features, may crash
> each five minutes, may even have terrible usability but if it has pretty
> interface, widgets placed perfectly to last pixel people will use it
> "because it is good looking". This works the other way: if application
> looks bad, misplaced widgets, not native interface, not common
> interface, etc users will never feel comfortable with it. Each mishap
> - even obviously caused with PEBKAC - will be always placed on "that
> strange program".


I'm totally agree. GUI construction is always big job to do and are
generally studied by specialist with an amount of user reports.

This is the only way to have a confortable program for everybody, and in
this case opensource workflow is really well adapted, if it's used properlly
(team must have a good communication with users and vice versa).

At home i have a great gui tester : my wife (:=)))

Gilles
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