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Review of the Edit Profile Dialog based on the KDE 4 HIG |
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Authors: Robert Knight < robertknight@gmail.com > |
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Last Updated: 07-05-2007 |
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Summary: A basic review of the edit profile dialog |
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checking conformance with the KDE 4 HIG |
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Contents: |
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1. Introduction |
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2. Visual vertical lines |
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3. Inline editing |
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4. Dialog depth |
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1. Introduction |
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This is a basic review of the Edit Profile Dialog, checking compliance against the |
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KDE 4 HIG guidelines posted here and documenting problems found. |
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http://wiki.openusability.org/guidelines/index.php/Design_and_Layout:Layout:Dialogs |
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2. Visual vertical lines |
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The guidelines suggest that there should be "one or two major vertical axis" to guide the user's |
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attention, that is there should be a vertical axis which widgets do not cross |
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( except for section titles ), but should be on one side or the other. |
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The "General" and "Advanced" tabs do not comply with this. In the General tab, |
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each section ( main , Tab Titles , Window & Tab Bar Options ) has its own visual line. |
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This is quite difficult to handle in Qt Designer at present and a problem for most |
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KDE applications. Particularly checkboxes and radio buttons since the label and |
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check/radio box are part of the same widget, but they may belong on |
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different sides of the vertical line. |
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2.1 Inline editing |
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The tab title format section has a separate dialog to help editing these formats. |
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The guidelines suggest the use of inline editing where possible. |
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2.2 Dialog depth |
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The guidelines suggest not nesting dialogs more than two levels deep. |
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If the user opens the dialog via Settings -> Edit Current Profile, then |
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there are no dialogs more than two levels deep. |
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If they go through the Manage Profiles dialog first ( Settings -> Manage Profiles ) |
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then the Color Scheme Editor / Key Bindings Editor dialogs are three levels deep. |
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3. Modality |
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The "Manage Profiles" and "Edit Profile" dialogs are generally used in a modal |
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fashion. This is not necessary.
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