New Smart GUI

[linux_learner]

I did check HIG before starting this, and again now. According to
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/ I am following;

1. Usability Principles<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles.html>Design
for People<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles.html#principles-people>Don't
Limit Your User
Base<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles-broad-userbase.html>
Accessibility<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles-broad-userbase.html#accessibility>Internationalization
and Localization<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles-broad-userbase.html#internationalization>Create
a Match Between Your Application and the Real
World<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles-match.html>Make
Your Application
Consistent<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles-consistency.html>Keep
the User Informed<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles-feedback.html>Keep
It Simple and Pretty<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles-simplicity.html>Put
the User in Control<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles-user-control.html>Forgive
the User<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles-forgiveness.html>Provide
Direct Manipulation<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles-direct-manipulation.html>
I guess it might help if you had an idea of the eventual goal. I'm hoping to
create sort of a merge of something like a combination of smart's current
gui, and yast/synaptic. I have also presented this to several forums, and
everyone else seems to like to idea and the layout.

So, I understand you don't like it at all, and like the current gui. That's
fine. Is there anything from the current gui that you'd like to see
improved, or functionality added? Let me put it another way; how can we
improve the current gui? This is the sort of feedback I need.

On 8/2/07, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org> wrote:
>
> On 8/2/07, linux_learner <linux.learner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Currently, the only way to do configurations in smart, is from the
> command
> > line. I wish to make this more intuitive.
>
> Still, this belongs to Edit / Preferences like the rest of the world has
> it.
>
> > As far as the menu, I just renamed it, and clustered like things
> together.
>
> Didn't check the menu.
>
> > As far as the tabbed boxes, again, that's to make things a bit more
> > intuitive. So there would be 2 ways. From the menu, or from the tabbed
> > boxes.
>
> Haven't seen an application where configuration is a tab in the main
> window. Doesn't make much sense to me. An average man in the street
> does not want to know about configuration. It's the admin's job to
> configure software and exposing configuration in the main window does
> everything but enchances the GUI.
>
> See HIG guidelines.
>
> --
> Patryk Zawadzki
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