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Bug 99539 - [ui-review] Nautilus preferences UI review
[ui-review] Nautilus preferences UI review
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Preferences
2.1.x
Other other
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on: 82707 118272
Blocks: 129568
 
 
Reported: 2002-11-25 18:36 UTC by Andrew Sobala
Modified: 2005-12-01 00:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Andrew Sobala 2002-11-25 18:36:06 UTC
- Needs a window icon
- Dialog will grow as more views are added
- s/Arrange Items/Arrange items
- Some confusion over the exclusiveness of compact and manual layouts
- Drop down list are generally too wide. Should only be as wide as the
longest entry
- Seperator in the tab Files and Folders is confusing
- s/Activate items with a single click/Single click to activate items
- s/Text Files/Scripts for consistancy
- <Eimi> s/Files and Folders/Behavior for the tab label
- s/Execute/Run
- More spacing needed
- "Include a Delete command that bypasses Trash" seems wrong
-- no real concrete suggestions on a change though :(
- Lots of unused space
- Help text removal
--- a preview pane would be nice
- Sentence capitalization rules apply for the drop down lists
- Units for file size in Preview tab are wrong, should use Kb
-- see http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/apbs02.html
- <huey> Number of file size options is too large. Maybe just have
          'small', 'medium' and 'large' and let you specify the file sizes
          in gconf? ie.
                Small (100 KB)
                Medium (1 MB)
                Large (10 MB)
Comment 1 Murray Cumming 2003-06-30 13:19:25 UTC
This is very unclear. Maybe someone could write actual sentences
telling us what actually needs to be changed.
Comment 2 Chris Altmann 2003-07-25 07:50:18 UTC
My attempt to organize these. My comments indicated by //

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These seem to be taken care of as of Nautilus 2.3.7:
- Needs a window icon
- s/Arrange Items/Arrange items
- s/Activate items with a single click/Single click to activate items
- Seperator in the tab Files and Folders is confusing 
- <Eimi> s/Files and Folders/Behavior for the tab label
- s/Execute/Run
- More spacing needed
// Looks fine to me. Didn't get out my ruler though.

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This is wrong (Kb = Kilobits KB = KiloBytes):
- Units for file size in Preview tab are wrong, should use Kb
-- see http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/apbs02.html

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These could be considered bugs/enhancement requests ?:
- "Include a Delete command that bypasses Trash" seems wrong
// I've seen many arguments on more than one list for more than
// one project about this. Shift-delete on Windows works for me
// but this is more discoverable.
- Dialog will grow as more views are added
// Views tab has 4 groups on it for 3 views plus general stuff. 
// If more Nautius views are invented this dialog would need redesign.
// Probably safe to worry about it then.
// Unless new views dynamically add to this? Eew.
- Some confusion over the exclusiveness of compact and manual layouts
// Not actually referring to Preferences.
// Try this:
// 1) pick View->Arrange Items->By Name on a folder
// 2) pick Compact Layout for same folder
// 3) pick Manually for same folder. The icons should stay put but 
// instead they space out to some interval that seems slightly less 
// than the standard layout
- s/Text Files/Scripts for consistancy
// Perhaps it is referring to the "Executable Text Files" group header
// on the Behavior tab.
// Maybe a change to "Executable Text Files (Scripts)" would be 
// helpful?
- <huey> Number of file size options is too large. Maybe just have
          'small', 'medium' and 'large' and let you specify the file sizes
          in gconf? ie.
                Small (100 KB)
                Medium (1 MB)
                Large (10 MB)
// Probably refers to the "Only for files smaller than" drop down on 
// the Preview tab
- Some confusion over the exclusiveness of compact and manual layouts
- Help text removal
--- a preview pane would be nice
// Doesn't really need one with instant apply if IIUC.
- Lots of unused space
// Room for more options!! :)
- Drop down list are generally too wide. Should only be as wide as the
longest entry
-- no real concrete suggestions on a change though :(
// I agree mainly because the Option menu control displays it's menu 
// way over to the left no matter where you click in the button. 
// Otherwise it does conform to the Spacing and Layout guideline 
// re: alignment points

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This one appears to be HIG related:
- Sentence capitalization rules apply for the drop down lists
// Contents of the option lists on the Views and Preview tabs 
// need to be Sentence capitalized (they are currently Header 
// capitalized). The option list contents on the icon captions 
// tab should also be sentence capitalized (they are currently 
// uncapitalized).
//
// Also, the "Local Files Only" items should probably be 
// "For local files only" to be consistent with the sentence 
// building metaphor (how well does that work with i18n) ?

Comment 3 Chris Altmann 2003-07-25 08:43:16 UTC
Filed last HIG item as bug 118272 and attached patch to relevant glade
file.

Left adding the "For local files only" for later. Opinions on that?



PS: Looks like I got that blocks/depends thing backwards. Must fix.
Then must sleep.
Comment 4 Jason 2005-09-04 00:25:05 UTC
Needs a menu option either in window menu, right click, or both for "open 
command line here" as KDE (and even MS Windows powertoy) has that allows for a 
command line that includes current window path already there for ease of use 
when using command line tools while in gui.  This should be a checkbox option 
from the preferences menu.  This is why I can't get anyone currently using KDE 
to switch over.  We like the clean easy appearance of Gnome, but KDE still 
offers the power to open command line from any window making CLI computing much 
easier and less time consuming.
Comment 5 Vidar Braut Haarr 2005-09-04 01:15:49 UTC
Re comment #4:
Read bug 131792 comment 17 to 21.
Comment 6 Jaap A. Haitsma 2005-11-27 17:33:31 UTC
IMO this bug can be CLOSED. (I don't have the permissions to do it)

Most of the stuff has been fixed or is not applicable anymore. I'll fix the
sentence capatilization after the patch in bug 322487 gets accepted. If there
are any things that need to be fixed please file them in a seperate bug report
Comment 7 Calum Benson 2005-12-01 00:55:26 UTC
Fine by me, closing as fixed.