Konqueror 4

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 02 November 2006 10:10, Ellen Reitmayr wrote:
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:55, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 November 2006 6:00, Ellen Reitmayr wrote:
> > > not completely.
> >
> > do you have a written summary of discovery i could reflect on rather than
> > the mental notes i have from conversations i managed with people i could
> > corner on irc? =)
>
> no sorry, it was all informal feedback to benjamin. but i'll try to find
> some time next week to write things down.

that would be -awesome-. i'll share my findings once i have more test subjects 
through the gauntlet =)

> > > the end of the dolphin breadcrumb disappears when you click
> > > on a previous folder in the hierarchy. the gnome remains. that has the
> > > advantage that you can quickly get back to the original folder when you
> > > just wanted to check something on a lower level. showed to be very
> > > useful in the tests.
> >
> > were there any issues with recognition of actual location in this case?
>
> no, there weren't (but keep in mind that we only tested 3 people).

interesting.

> > hm ... i wonder if it would make sense to show the end buttons in
> > a 'non-active' state; this is something the GNOME widget does not do and
> > it's very annoying.
>
> but won't users then assume it's disabled and not clickable? i agree they
> may be marked in a different way, but it must also be visually distinct
> from disabled.

that's why i said "non-active" instead of "disabled". i actually 
typed "disabled" initially and then deleted it for the reasons you note here 
=)

> > and perhaps these exta buttons should go away completely when any other
> > action is triggered, including a mouse-over triggered file preview? or is
> > that part of "wanting to check something"?
>
> i think they should stay until the user selects another folder.

ok ... i'll see what i can pull together for this then.

> > what, particularly, were people wanting to check? if it is "what other
> > navigation options were there" that seems to be handled pretty well by
> > the drop downs on the buttons in dolphin, though i do need more test
> > subjects to confirm that particular finding.
>
> yes, in the test they checked for other navigation options.
> i haven't discovered these drop-downs yet - are they implemented in version
> 0.7?

no. svn only.

> in our test, benjamin had vista-like drop-downs which did not work well.
> the users got confused if they should look for subfolders in front of or
> after the label of a given folder, and didn't use it.

i took that into consideration when designing these drop downs. so far its 
testing well, but my sample set is too small still too. working on it =)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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