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News from the User Experience Hackfest - jonathan

jonathan — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:57:06 +0000

Great to see people working on innovating with usability! Reading this i'd like to share an insight: you can't hack usability that is you can't use customization as an excuse for things.
(This coming after having to switch to ubuntu from opensuse and having to muck around to get the cool start menu back and ending up with a half arsed solution that misses important features, like a shutdown button!)

News from the User Experience Hackfest - Aigarius

Aigarius — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:56:27 +0000

I hope that the 'access to documents' would not try to be too smart for itself and still have a sane and human-readable and human-manageable folder structure on the filesystem - I would not want to have to enter cryptic GUID folder names in some old app or be unable to have a remote Solaris server ssh in and backup away a folder where I keep all project documentation, for example. POSIX is there for a reason.

News from the User Experience Hackfest - Raphael

Raphael — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:29:16 +0000

I hope you started to remove duplication from the desktop? That would be fabulous! I always disliked the way an application's icon gets splattered all over the desktop; on the Application menu, in the window list, in the notification area.

I'd rather have a unified indicator per application, showing whether it is launched or not, for notification and also to launch the application.

News from the User Experience Hackfest - ethana2

ethana2 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:17:26 +0000

Here's a screenshot I took just now:
i35.tinypic.com/2z8ast3.p...

News from the User Experience Hackfest - ethana2

ethana2 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:14:03 +0000

"thinking about window management, workspaces, applets"

I use window-picker-applet on my machines. The title belongs in the top panel, window menu bars and window controls need to be merged. NOTHING belongs on the bottom, and until people allow me to put status bars up where I'm looking, I'll leave them all turned off.

News from the User Experience Hackfest - .fosk.

.fosk. — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:16:19 +0000

Wow... i am looking forward to seeing the mockups and the direction gnome is heading for the next months/years!!!
Very exciting times!

News from the User Experience Hackfest - Sayamindu

Sayamindu — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:16:05 +0000

Journal screenshot at wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:...
(however I'm not sure if this is the thing that Scott demoed/presented to you)