Postings tagged with Usability
Automatic suspend when closing the lid
There is this big discussion about automatic suspend when closing lid as only user visible option going on. Let me share a little tale about the implications of that feature:
A long, long time ago... A young student just bought his first notebook few weeks ago and this was a big thing as even such entry class notebooks were really expensive those days. After long ...
What I hate about online booking
Dear websites offering online booking,
please include the possibility to pay in cash (put more precisely: to pay "offline"), as often as possible. There's no reason you need my detailed contacts/banking information for smaller amounts of money when all that I ask for is a simple transfer service. Most often, an online reservation (without the online payment part) is all I want ...
Show me your home screen!
To me the empty home screen* of the N900 looked like an invitation, so I tried to fill it up with useless stuff as quickly as possible. The home screen configuration menu offers app launchers (shortcuts), bookmarks, widgets and contacts. Let's go through all four options in detail:
- Shortcuts: I almost always have some tasks running in the background so launching an application would usually take three to four finger touches. Therefore the app launchers are extremely helpful to ...
Firefox Certificate Insanity
Christopher, this kind of insanity and the arrogance with which related feedback is handled, is exactly the reason, why people want alternate browser UI's. Sometimes I really wonder if Mozilla's UI designers serve the users, or if they just serve their ego.
Combine this need for custom UIs with the uglyness of Mozilla's bloated XPCOM APIs and the inability to keep ...
Aren't Tomboy Notebooks redundant?
Boyd, don't you think that notebooks are redundant for an application that got tags already?
(Sorry, for commenting on PGO, but appearently you disabled comments for people without blogger.com account.)
SoC-Status 2007/06/28
During the last week I've adding GtkExtendedLayout support to GtkLabel and GtkBin. GtkVBox got some first code to use this extended layout information. Results are not that fancy yet, but the next days should bring some nice break-through.
The test program got rather confusing with all the guides drawn, so it got checkboxes to toggle visibility of certain guide types ...
