Re: [Synaptic-devel] KDE Frontend

[Henrique Pinto]

On Monday 22 December 2003 05:15, Michael Vogt wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:38:12PM -0200, Henrique Pinto wrote:
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> > On Sunday 21 December 2003 16:27, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> > > Am So, den 21.12.2003 schrieb Henrique Pinto um 17:58:
> > > > I gave up on porting Synaptic since the code was too much tied to
> > > > GTK libraries and the UI had some usability issues.
> > >
> > > I cannot talk about GTK stuff, but we could discuss the UI issues
> > > anyway. What are you think about exactly?
> >
> > Mostly inconsistencies with the KDE UIG (User Interface Guidelines). I
> > don't think they're relevant to Synaptic (you may prefer following the
> > GNOME HIG). But there are some "generic" issues. I did simple
> > usability tests, nothing too "scientific". If the results are
> > interesting for you, I can write a proper usability report on a later
> > moment.
>
> Please do that. This would help us to adress those issues.

I'll be re-doing the tests, since they were made with an old version of 
synaptic (the one bundled with Conectiva 9). Tests will (mostly) consist 
of analyzing the behavior of users when asked to do specific tasks. Any 
specific points you would want me to test?

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        Henrique Pinto
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