[haiku-development] Re: Moving clock options to Time Preferences
- From: Siarzhuk Zharski <zharik@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:08:30 +0100
Hallo John,
Am 10.11.2012 17:42, schrieb John Scipione:
The clock options in Time would look like this:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mda5n8lvTs1r0f0hfo1_500.png
1) The best place for 24h/12h selection option is Locales preflet;
2) The best place for _Deskbar_-related settings is Deskbar preflet;
By the way, in no relation to my opinion about uselessness of this tab -
it is looking like bad designed: left and right parts are unbalanced,
options can have more vertical spacing in case of 2-columns layout.
Deskbar preferences would look something like this (except with a few
unrelated options added since this mockup was made):
https://dev.haiku-os.org/attachment/ticket/7331/deskbar_mockup.png
The height x width ratio is uncomfortable and can provoke some kind of
mental disorder at our users. I'm not joking - it hurts the eyesas the
lamp in the police station.
Although the clock options would be removed from Deskbar preferences
I'd like to keep the 12/24 hour clock setting in both Time and Locale
since it has a place in both. Setting the option in either would
affect the other (and of course the clock in Deskbar as well).
I still see no reasons to duplicate the settings. And that is even more
unacceptable - any "hidden", implicit relations between options in
separate preflets.It is even more dangerous for user's health than bad
HxW ratio.
Overcomplicationg the things is not a BeOS way.
PS: Usually, before concepting some UI dialogs or windows I read some
pages in the book about user interfaces design - just to refresh the
rules and not to miss something that was "written by blood" ... yes-yes
... by tears from the exhausted user eyes. ;-)
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Kind Regards,
S.Zharski
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