[yast-devel] Redesign of YaST Control Center
Hi everyone, we want to redesign the YaST Control Center. Therefore we are looking for a radical new design. This is your chance to share your ideas regarding YaST Control Center. Please feel free to contribute with mockups and (unconventional) ideas here: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/New_Control_Center Thanks, Thomas --- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
* Thomas Goettlicher
Hi everyone,
we want to redesign the YaST Control Center. Therefore we are looking for a radical new design.
Great ! Thanks for pushing this forward.
This is your chance to share your ideas regarding YaST Control Center.
Let me share this link with you: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/24/road_to_mac_os_x_leopard_syste... Klaus --- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
On 23/11/2007, Thomas Goettlicher
we want to redesign the YaST Control Center. Therefore we are looking for a radical new design.
Please feel free to contribute with mockups and (unconventional) ideas here: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/New_Control_Center
Looking at this mockup, it's almost identical to the "systemsettings" kcontrol replacement (will be default in kde4)[0] and also I believe the gnome app-browser. I have not looked at how these are implemented, but using them for YaST could be as easy as putting the YaST module .desktop files in the correct places, and adding a few extra fields to the .desktop files. If so this could be the easiest ever major feature to implement. [0] http://bw.uwcs.co.uk/systemsettings.png -- Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 23 November 2007 17:35, Benji Weber wrote:
IMOH that tab is not visible enough to be really useful. It's very easils
overlooked, and then you just can't find the module you are looking for.
And I fear behind "Advanced" there are all 118 (!) icons we now have lurking,
waiting to overwhelm the poor user who considers himself expert enough... ;-)
CU
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Stefan Hundhammer
Thanks for that many postings (>150!!) and the discussion with valuable ideas. I will collect these proposals from your mails and will add them to the wiki page. Please add your future ideas directly to the wiki page, as I don't want them to get dusty in the list archives. There was a little bit confusion about the concern of my original posting. Please apologize my unclear wording. The issue was about organizing the modules based on the problems faced with having a lot of yast modules. The term "Radical Redesign" meant that we not just want to rearrange the modules in new sections or to hide modules within the sections but to find a radical _new way to organize_ a vast amount of modules. Please refer to the mentioned wiki page to further clarify the purpose of this thread as it already contains notes from previous discussions and some ideas as a pointer. Looking forward to your contribution at: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/New_Control_Center Thanks Thomas --- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
Hi everyone, thanks for all your comments on the YaST Control Center redesign so far. Please find another suggestion for a radical and innovative redesign on: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/New_Control_Center#Tagcloudish The main thought beyond that idea is to increase the size of the modules when the user has used it. Similar to tag clouds, modules that are used often become bigger and therefore * easier to detect * easier to open because the size the user needs to hit with his mouse was increased. The different size would also serve as a kind of "Recently Used" reminder. The "HowTo Guide" link will lead to a HowTo/Troubleshooting Wiki. This should serve as a replacement for "help". This makes sense, because studies show, that due to bad experiences users don't expect any help beyond a help button. The use of similar icons in the service section represents modules that are not installed yet. I would like to get your comments on that idea. Please note, that the categorization and the modules were picked by chance. The important thing is the idea, that is behind that. And maybe it is worth to give it a try as it is something no control center has yet. Even Apple doesn't have such kind of thing :-) Best regards, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz@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: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
Hi everyone, I have read all your emails now. Many thanks for the valuable discussion and the huge amount of good ideas. I have added them to the wikipage: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/New_Control_Center Please feel free to add ideas, rearrange the sections or to draw mockups. Thanks a lot! Thomas On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 12:17 +0100, Thomas Goettlicher wrote:
Hi everyone,
we want to redesign the YaST Control Center. Therefore we are looking for a radical new design.
This is your chance to share your ideas regarding YaST Control Center.
Please feel free to contribute with mockups and (unconventional) ideas here: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Development/New_Control_Center
Thanks, Thomas
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Thomas Goettlicher