Hi, I've made a screenshot (attached) of the Build Commands dialog using buttons for the menu item labels instead of text entries. This is because:
1. It makes it clear that menu labels don't normally need to be edited. 2. It displays the mnemonic correctly.
Clicking the button can still allow setting the menu item text via a dialog prompt, and there would be a tooltip to say this.
Good idea?
Regards, Nick
On 11 March 2010 04:19, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.comwrote:
Hi, I've made a screenshot (attached) of the Build Commands dialog using buttons for the menu item labels instead of text entries. This is because:
- It makes it clear that menu labels don't normally need to be edited.
- It displays the mnemonic correctly.
Clicking the button can still allow setting the menu item text via a dialog prompt, and there would be a tooltip to say this.
Good idea?
It is an "unusual" UI paradigm so I am not sure ...
It might have to be tried to see if it improves or damages the ease of use.
Cheers Lex
Regards, Nick
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On 11 March 2010 09:08, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 March 2010 04:19, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.comwrote:
Hi, I've made a screenshot (attached) of the Build Commands dialog using buttons for the menu item labels instead of text entries. This is because:
- It makes it clear that menu labels don't normally need to be edited.
- It displays the mnemonic correctly.
Clicking the button can still allow setting the menu item text via a dialog prompt, and there would be a tooltip to say this.
Good idea?
It is an "unusual" UI paradigm so I am not sure ...
It might have to be tried to see if it improves or damages the ease of use.
Cheers Lex
The other thing I thought of (belatedly, sorry) is that for the plugin configuration dialog in version build-system 2.0 I was going to make editing the details in a sub-dialog. Does it make sense if the button shows that sort of sub-dialog for the built-in config?
Cheers Lex
Regards, Nick
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On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:05:45 +1100 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
I've made a screenshot (attached) of the Build Commands dialog using buttons for the menu item labels instead of text entries. This is because:
- It makes it clear that menu labels don't normally need to be edited.
- It displays the mnemonic correctly.
Clicking the button can still allow setting the menu item text via a dialog prompt, and there would be a tooltip to say this.
Good idea?
It is an "unusual" UI paradigm so I am not sure ...
Maybe, but personally I think visually it makes the dialog look better. It makes the (rarer) label editing less intuitive but the command editing quicker to understand.
It might have to be tried to see if it improves or damages the ease of use.
The other thing I thought of (belatedly, sorry) is that for the plugin configuration dialog in version build-system 2.0 I was going to make editing the details in a sub-dialog. Does it make sense if the button shows that sort of sub-dialog for the built-in config?
Sounds good to me for the plugin. Not sure if we want other things besides editing the menu item label in the core (yet?).
Regards, Nick
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:08:10 +1100, Lex wrote:
On 11 March 2010 04:19, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.comwrote:
Hi, I've made a screenshot (attached) of the Build Commands dialog using buttons for the menu item labels instead of text entries. This is because:
- It makes it clear that menu labels don't normally need to be
edited. 2. It displays the mnemonic correctly.
Clicking the button can still allow setting the menu item text via a dialog prompt, and there would be a tooltip to say this.
Good idea?
It is an "unusual" UI paradigm so I am not sure ...
Yes. Though I do like the idea, for the same reasons Nick pointed out above, especially 1.
It might have to be tried to see if it improves or damages the ease of use.
ACK.
Regards, Enrico
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:29:53 +0100 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
I've made a screenshot (attached) of the Build Commands dialog using buttons for the menu item labels instead of text entries. This is because:
- It makes it clear that menu labels don't normally need to be
edited. 2. It displays the mnemonic correctly.
Clicking the button can still allow setting the menu item text via a dialog prompt, and there would be a tooltip to say this.
Good idea?
It is an "unusual" UI paradigm so I am not sure ...
Yes. Though I do like the idea, for the same reasons Nick pointed out above, especially 1.
It might have to be tried to see if it improves or damages the ease of use.
ACK.
Now implemented in SVN.
Regards, Nick
