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Comment on Ubuntu Brainstorm Help 2 by thorwil

thorwil — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:06:16 +0000

Thank you, porl!

Yeah, Bob has been shot down. The gears win due to a lack of competition

Glad you like all post sketches. So does Nicolas, but he prefers the second.

Comment on Ubuntu Brainstorm Help 2 by porl

porl — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:00:50 +0000

forgot to mention: the 2 speech bubbles for discuss look great. i wasn’t a fan of the three bubbles in the last post.

porl

Comment on Ubuntu Brainstorm Help 2 by porl

porl — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:58:59 +0000

i think your ‘participate’ icon of the three people in a circle is brilliant. i’m not sure of the ’see’ one though, to me it is more someone having trouble seeing, which isn’t the right impression i think the eye image suited this concept better. i also don’t know about the ‘vote’ icon, but i can’t think of any better way to do it… maybe an image of a piece of paper with 3 tickboxes and one ticked? might be confused for an options icon though. the post icons all look great i think 1 and 4 are the best

porl

Comment on Popup Scrollbar Concept Demo by Peter William Lount

Peter William Lount — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:29:38 +0000

Nice.

It’s similar to the behavior of the NeXTstep or OpenStep scroll bars with all the options being available just in a very minor variant with the pop up page buttons. Check out MacOSX or GNUstep for a comparison.

Comment on Popup Scrollbar Concept Demo by Cory

Cory — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:14:43 +0000

Yeah - they all have scrollwheels because scrollbars have sucked for 25 years.

Comment on Popup Scrollbar Concept Demo by Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:32:51 +0000

Ummm…does that really matter anymore? All mice will have a scroll wheel…even track pads have scrolling functionality. Would have been nice a few years ago.

Comment on Ubuntu Brainstorm Help by Steve Nordquist

Steve Nordquist — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:28:40 +0000

I mean, you could do it with all wine/cordial/warming glasses and liquors or teas, too. The participation icon is a little odd; surely gripping one another in wrist blocks or n-person standing wrestling starting positions isn’t what happens in that part of the program?

I mean, you could even do an all-mollusk set of icons….

Comment on Ubuntu Brainstorm Help 2 by Steve Nordquist

Steve Nordquist — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:18:54 +0000

Rework with all dog gestures; paw up (or mount?) to post, wag at bitch alpha-left to vote, co-sniffing to discuss, various examinations to view, etc.etc. Bob just looks so generic!

I mean, when some ragingly Arabic guy wants to hold a table or sale item, and doesn’t want to give a name, Bob or Phillip or Dan is a pretty fun choice placeholder to give him. But samey ectomorphs aren’t what I need lots of.

Come and think of it, a big wrong grouping of malware syndicate people would make a pretty snarky art desktop. Probably not what one wants as a default for Ubuntu, but if you have to imitate life, imitate life.

Comment on Popup Scrollbar Concept Demo by Ari

Ari — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:51:16 +0000

I have never really liked using scroll bar, but it seems this might be about to change… Great work

Comment on Popup Scrollbar Concept Demo by Marcelo Lopez

Marcelo Lopez — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:50:56 +0000

Wally: And once again, explain why your old scroll is the best solution.

He didn’t say the old scroll bar is the best solution, at least not specifically. So if the argument is one of specifics, then you need not look any further at the multiple ( and all quite valid points ) about what you DO lose over the “old”scroll solution.

Different people WILL perceive what they want to happen, and how they want it to look as it happens, different ways. Some people will want ( or feel more comfortable with ) the “follow me” approach whereas some will want the “move it away” approach. Either way, this substitutes one for the other, and as others have pointed out, in a no-so-intuitive way.

I do applaud the effort to implement this, or to approach the subject. Pity humanity is so accustomed to “it should just work”, without answering the “which way was THAT again ?” question first.First answer the question of how action-response can be made intuitive ( what does the user do, and what does the user then see as a reaction ), and then worry about the specifics of what button goes where, etc.etc.