Feedback about Breadcrumb Navigation stuff.

[Jeffery MacEachern]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:15, nuno pinheiro <nuno at oxygen-icons.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 28 August 2010 19:39:17 Marco Martin wrote:
>> On Saturday 28 August 2010, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> > Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>> > > On Friday, August 27, 2010, Bart Cerneels wrote:
>> > >> The breadcrumb items (Home, kdabtest2, Inbox) look the same as the
>> > >> selection items (Tasks, Journals, etc) *
>> > >
>> > > that was precisely my thought as well..
>> >
>> > This is already a misunderstanding. In the screenshot the selected item
>> > is "Inbox", "kdabtest2" is one level up from that, and "Tasks" etc are
>> > children of "Inbox". Only one breadcrumb item ("kdabtest2" here) is ever
>> > shown currently, though that might change in the future (If an item has
>> > few or no child items, we'll show more breadcrumbs rather than leave
>> > empty space below). "Home" is not a breadcrumb, but a always-there way
>> > to get back to the invisible root of the tree. If "Contacts" had two
>> > child folders (it doesn't otherwise you would see a plus) and I clicked
>> > it what
>>
>> > I would see is this:
>> uhm, inbox should be indented compared to kdabtest2, and tasks notes etc
>> indented compared to inbox (with bullet points)
>>
>> home if it's a separate action to always get to the root, should look like
>> a pushbutton
>>
>> >   Home |
>> >
>> > Inbox  |
>> > --------
>> > Contacts
>> > --------
>> > Sub1   |
>> > Sub2   |
>> >
>> > I would be interested to know if this is clear to people who used it, and
>> > not only saw videos and screenshots. I think the animations really help
>> > too.
>> >
>> > Please checkout and build this:
>> >
>> > svn+ssh://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdepim/runtime/qml/kde/tests/qml
>> > br eadcrumbnavigation
>> >
>> > It's a self contained Qt only (4.7) test case which you can use to
>> > navigate around and try out.
>>
>> in this test there is the same problem, it's hard to tell what the items
>> mean without looking at the treeview
>> with a bit of indentation and a back icon (a left facing arrow or an undo
>> icon) near the label of the button that goes one level up (an uhm..
>> one-level breadcrumb?) would be more clear s well
>
> guys you need to test the thing in the device it makes no sence in a static
> picture, it looks completly completly completly difrent in the n900.
>
> you need to use it its quite self explanatory wile using it

I have to agree with Nuno on that.  While I do remember being
initially a bit unsure of how to interact with it, I figured it out
quickly.  Also, I think that may have been with a slightly earlier
version.

That said, I've never really seen UI elements such as the Flaps or the
Breadcrumb widget in use elsewhere.  I think they work well, but are
there any plans for how to introduce new widgets to users?  (e.g. a
quick demo screen or something?)

Cheers,
 - Jeffery MacEachern

>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marco Martin
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