KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/devicenotifier

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On July 14, 2010, Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 July 2010 20:10:42 Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> > > SVN commit 1149977 by jacopods:
> > > 
> > > First attempt to get rid of the capacity bar in the device notifier:
> > > use a Plasma::Meter with tooltips. Screenshot:
> > > http://imagebin.ca/view/ccJ3dD.html
> > 
> > No longer displays amount of free space --> regression.
> > Avoidable tooltips -> Usability problem.
> 
> I agree, suggestions?

<devil's advocate>is it worth the extra text (and therefore visual 
information) in this particular UI to always show the numeric amount of space 
left?</devil's advocate>

<angel's advocate>that you can find this out on hover via a tooltip is not 
particular discoverable, and this information only shown on hover of the item 
anyways.</angel's advocate>

<aaron's advocate>i really dislike text-on-graphics from a design perspective. 
text is fine detail, and a progress bar is visually fairly complex. maybe it's 
time to think outside the box. e.g. maybe colourize the device icon showing 
what % of it is filled and provide the usage text where the current progress 
bar is. the pie chart solution as seen in Lancelot would likely break up the 
layout in visually unpleasing ways here, so i wouldn't consider that too 
much.</aaron's advocate>

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