PATCH - HOME URL and profiles

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Sunday 19 September 2004 03:18, Dawit A. wrote:
> Okay I have an updated ui file. Although I button the label besided the
> lineedit to not waste space, I still kept the edit box up top. IMHO, it
> just completely clashes with the HOME URL entry and makes it look crowded
> when it is placed at the bottom.

sorry, this is just *very* bad usability. you have put selection in BETWEEN 
the editable fields. worse, some of the editable fields are _before_ (e.g. 
"prior to", visually) the selection. no, the editable fields must be kept 
together.

moreover, but having some labels to the left of what it editable and some (or 
rather, one) above it hurts visual encoding because you now have two distinct 
indentation and relative positioning cues for the user to figure out.

> I however moved the buttons to the side. 
> This means only "close" will be left on the bottom.:

why do we need a Rename button? isn't clicking on the profile, changing the 
name and clicking Save enough? and Save should be specific to the dialog, not 
each profile (to keep consistency with other such dialogs) and should 
therefore be at the bottom as par usual.

the Delete button does make sense nearer to the profile list. in fact, one may 
even wish to put the profile list to the left, with the Delete button 
directly beneath it, and the edit fields to the right of it.

and the profiles box really should have a header with a single column defining 
what is in that list ("Profiles").

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Aaron J. Seigo
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