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YaST Contest - The last day to submit your ideas
by Lukas Ocilka 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hi, Today is the last day you can submit your ideas on how the YaST Mascot should look like and the YaST Mascot name. The judging will begin on October 21, and the winner will be announced on October 27. See http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/YaST_Contest for details and add your ideas to the Gallery section. Bye & Thanks Lukas -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ano, ano. Moudry rozkaz. Sam jsem nemel v tech gratulacich jasno.

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Re: [yast-devel] yast style guide effective
by Lukas Ocilka 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Karl Eichwalder wrote: > Maybe, it is worth referencing the old "Style Guide for SUSE Program > Texts" from the YaST Stuile Guide: > > http://forgeftp.novell.com/yast/doc/SL11.0/styleguide/index.html > > I'm wondering whether we should move it from forgeftp to the > opensuse wiki... Karl, the YaST Style Guide wiki :) Copy the last 11.1 "Style Guide for SUSE Program Texts" to openSUSE wiki and link it if you want :) ;) Bye L.

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The most user-friendly and the most attractive openSUSE installer ever! First Results of the Follow-Up Usability Study - Easy Installation (openSUSE 11.0)
by Evamaria Fuchs 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hi all, I'd like to share my first results concerning attractiveness and user- friendliness of the openSUSE 11.0 installer - the most user-friendly and the most attractive openSUSE installer ever! See attached charts! (ranges from -3 to 3) More information on http://en.opensuse.org/UX_Team Cu Eva Evamaria Fuchs Usability Engineering evamaria.fuchs(a)novell.com

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First Results of the Follow-Up Usability Study - Easy Installation (openSUSE 11.0)
by Evamaria Fuchs 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi all, I'd like to share my first results concerning attractiveness and user- friendliness of the openSUSE 11.0 installer - the most user-friendly and the most attractive openSUSE installer ever! See attached charts! (ranges from -3 to 3) More information on http://en.opensuse.org/UX_Team CU Eva Evamaria Fuchs Usability Engineering evamaria.fuchs(a)novell.com

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yast style guide effective
by Martin Schmidkunz 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi everybody, finally the YaST style guide is finished and effective immediately! See: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Style_Guide So please take a look at your modules and polish them :-) As far as I can see the main issues are: * table with buttons http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Style_Guide#Table_with_Buttons * using check boxes to enable/disable things * to make ConfirmAbort look like http://en.opensuse.org/Image:Ysg_discarding_changes.png * replacing "Abort" label with "Cancel" in wizardycp Thanks a lot to everyone contributing to the style guide! Especially to Lukas and Bubli! Cu, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz(a)novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help(a)opensuse.org

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yast style guide
by Martin Schmidkunz 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hi everyone, please find a new version of the YaST style guide draft at: http://en.opensuse.org/Image:Ysg2.pdf The goal is to have a developer friendly style guide which ensures the greatest possible consistency between various modules and various environments. The time line for the style guide is to discuss it the next two weeks and to have an executable style guide by the end of the YaST workshop. I would like to ask and encourage you again to discuss it! What do you like? What do you dislike? What is missing? Just to come up with some points of discussion: * button labeling: OK/Cancel instead of Apply/Accept/Abort/... and Next/Back/Cancel/Finish in a wizard/add workflow I know OK/Cancel is not 100% correct but with these two labels we are consistent to GNOME HIG and KDE http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/windows-utility.html.en#expl… http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/dialogs/index.ht… * Progress dialogs I propose to skip the cancel button because I made the experience that in many cases the cancel button does not work * Number of steps in a wizard I propose to skip the display of "Step XX of XX" because the number of steps can not predicted in every module * colons In accordance to GNOME (http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/controls-option-menus.html.en) and KDE style guide (http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/basics/labels.ht…) I propose to use colons with the label of a combo box And of course there might be many more issues worth to be discussed :-) The style guide is based on the style guide in the wiki (http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Style_Guide) developed by Lukas and me and when we agreed on one version it will be published in the openSUSE wiki again. Looking forward to your opinions! Cu, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz(a)novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help(a)opensuse.org

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results of hard disk configuration survey
by Martin Schmidkunz 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi everybody, the results of the hard disk configuration survey are available at http://en.opensuse.org/UX#View_results_of_previous_surveys Big thanks to all of you who took the time in participating! Your answers were very helpful! Have a lot of fun, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz(a)novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help(a)opensuse.org

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openSUSE hard disk configuration survey
by Martin Schmidkunz 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi! We are currently conducting a survey about hard disk configuration. It is available via http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lnZcsBO6PqJ9hjNW01jiyQ_3d_3d or http://en.opensuse.org/UX The survey will be online until 28th May 2008 and the results will be published on openSUSE.org as soon as possible Answering the questions will take less than five minutes. Thank you and have a lot of fun, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz(a)novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help(a)opensuse.org

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Screen resolutions
by Lukas Ocilka 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've come across a web that show a lot of data useful to the Usability Experts :) Example: Screen Resolutions for Year 2008 http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=17&qpmr=100&qpdt=1&qpct=3… 1024 x 768 44.35% 1280 x 800 14.95% 1280 x 1024 13.08% 800 x 600 6.92% 1440 x 900 5.68% 1680 x 1050 3.63% Please, keep this in mind when designing applications :) Have a nice day Lukas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHudwFVSqMdRCqTiwRAo1mAJ9b08Suimb6fd9BDJcv4LHdrq0q6ACfeZaM U5D2GW00gObd76Qwo/xUyeU= =zl5s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help(a)opensuse.org

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redesign of printer module redesign
by Martin Schmidkunz 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hi everybody, a quite wise CUPS expert once said "exchange dungeons by trees" and that was an inspiration for me to take your feedback and make another series of mock ups: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/Printer_Enhancement#Release_Candida… What do you think about it? The first feedbacks revealed a great sense of confusion about the amount and design of information presented in the overview. Thats why the space acquired by help was used for an overview. (Help as such will not be dropped it will move to a button within the navigation area :-)) One thought was to hide "print via network", "sharing" and "CUPS autoconfig" under a "Settings" category, but this idea was dropped as the word "Settings" as such is quite meaningless. We also exchange "Remote Access" with "Share Printers" as this might be easier to understand. I am looking forward to your comments, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz(a)novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help(a)opensuse.org

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