[kde-guidelines] Phrasing of selection teasers

[Heiko Tietze]

Your discussion is a nice example of the advantage of Personas: either he or 
she wants to have a very efficient tool (reduce the number of clicks) or prefer 
learnability.
 
I'd suggest you add your proposal to our contributing page [1]. A picture 
would be nice too. One idea to replace the dual list can be found there at the 
paragraph 'selection'. Since the HIG is in use we have to be conservative with 
revolutions and decided to state the current guidelines until KF 5.0 is 
availaible.

[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Contributing

Am Mittwoch, 4. September 2013, 15:44:54 schrieb Diego Moya:
> To clarify - when I say "multi-selection list" I'm referring to the
> [Available items] list.
> 
> The alternative that I propose still could be seen as a dual list, sort of,
> in the most general case (where the [Selected items] is can not be safely
> removed as not needed); but it requires a reduced number of clicks, and no
> need to multi-select with Ctrl+click.
> 
> One major problem of the classic Dual List is that it's confusing because
> both lists are given equal weight. So another advantage of my proposal over
> the dual list with arrows suggested at the HIG is that the [Available
> items] list is made the primary control; the [Selected items] can be made
> subsidiary, de-emphasized. This increases the visual hierarchy, directing
> user interaction towards the [Available items] in the first interaction
> when no items are still selected.