Redesign of "Configure Launches" dialog

Sven Brauch svenbrauch at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 6 09:07:11 UTC 2012


> - I don't think that frame inside "Debugger" tab is necessary.
It's a scroll area, if it's not there the widget is quite huge... what
else should be done about that?

> - The way you composite sentence from labels and checkboxes on the
> "Dependencies" tab is not great. Not just from i18n point of view
> but it just looks wrong even in english.
Yes, that was already discussed in IRC. :)

> - I am not thrilled about naming tabs "General" and "Advanced". Such names
> don't tell user what to expect there. Maybe, "Executable" and "Environment"
> would be more appropriate names?
Yes, sure. Maybe "Environment" is not ideal when you can also
configure the terminal emulator there... but it's probably okay, I
guess.

Greetings,
Sven

Am 6. Februar 2012 07:48 schrieb Vladimir Prus <ghost at cs.msu.su>:
> On 03/02/12 21:24, Sven Brauch wrote:
>
>> Anyway, enough said about the old one. Here's my suggestion for a new
>> dialog, which I'd like to discuss and improve:
>>     http://imgur.com/a/lnciJ#0
>> Here's the UI file:
>>     http://files.feorar.org/launchdialog2.ui
>>
>> Changing the "Program type" dropdown thing to something else would
>> change the tab layout (for example add an "interpreter" tab).
>> Please tell me what you think. Of course it's totally non-functional,
>> currently (the UI file is just a mockup).
>
>
> Hi Sven,
>
> I have a few nit-picky comments on your mockup:
>
> - I don't think that frame inside "Debugger" tab is necessary.
>
> - The way you composite sentence from labels and checkboxes on the
> "Dependencies" tab is not great. Not just from i18n point of view
> but it just looks wrong even in english.
>
> - I am not thrilled about naming tabs "General" and "Advanced". Such names
> don't tell user what to expect there. Maybe, "Executable" and "Environment"
> would be more appropriate names?
>
> Thanks,
> Volodya
>
>
>
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