[Kde-pim] KOrganizer UI problems

[Allen Winter]

On Saturday 06 October 2007 12:44:33 pm Loïc Corbasson wrote:
> Am jeudi 4 octobre 2007 schrieb Mike Arthur:
> > On Wednesday 03 October 2007 22:13:39 Loïc Corbasson wrote:
> > > I agree with you, but as Cornelius pointed out text was really not
> > > practical. I suppose short month names or digits would not make the
> > > date navigator more accessible to the users who may not understand
> > > the meaning/action of the buttons with only the arrow icons left…
> > > Do you have any icon suggestion which may indeed help them, and
> > > that we may suggest to our artists? (Maybe other organizers use
> > > other icons?)
> >
> > Presumably you meant:
> > ... short month names or digits WOULD make the date navigator more
> > accessible....
> 
> No, I didn't. I meant that I think that the users who would not 
> understand the meaning of the arrows on the sides of the date navigator 
> would not understand the meaning of the abbreviations. In France for 
> example, the abbreviations for the months are not very frequent, and 
> seeing the year written on two digits is rare, so I don't see these as 
> helping my grand-father use an electronic organizer. I'm no usability 
> expert though.
> 
> > I think this is the best option, 3 character month names and 2 digit
> > years. Do other languages have valid short month names available?
> 
> AFAIK, most "European" languages do, even if they may be rarely seen in 
> some of them (e.g. French).
> 
> > As for icons, it would be a nice idea but, rethinking my suggestion,
> > icons are generally bad for usability as an exclusive indicator. As a
> > visual cue or function you created/assigned yourself they are great.
> > However, novice users take no meaning from icons, even obvious ones
> > such as printer icons so accompanying text is pretty essential.
> 
> How about writing the month and year below, unabbreviated, in smaller 
> characters? IMHO, horizontal space is more rare and precious in 
> KOrganizer's views, but taking some vertical space should be OK.
> 
For now, I think tooltips "scroll forward/backward 1 month/year" is the best we can do.
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