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------- Additional Comments From mathieu.bonnet
riverside-idealism org 2007-01-12 17:26 -------
>
> The progress items are disabled by default, so you must
have hit
> the arrow button to enable it. If you were able to
enable it, it
> should be also possible to disable it. I don't see a
reason for
> another config option.
>
If he didn't find how, this is a usability problem. I
sometimes have some problems to click on this arrow, before
it is deactivated and hidden, too... (and I'm not even
talking about reading the tooltip -and I'm not even talking
about accessibility to users who cannot move their mouse
quickly (or use a mouse at all)). Why hide it, when no other
information is otherwise shown in place of it? (though it
would still be a usability problem, in there was something
else).
The arrow should not disappear, and should not be disabled,
when all tasks have been completed. We should be able to
configure this at all times. An option might be added to the
"View" menu (it would be redundant, but a more
centralized configuration is always good, when options are
also scattered in the window, where the actions they control
take place).
The option in the view menu (and maybe it could also be
added as a right-click menu, when clicking on the arrow and
the status bar part, at its right), should permit to set if
we want to show the details or not, and if we want to keep
completed tasks for, like, 0 second (remove as soon as
completed -for users who only care about what's being
currently done), 1 second (for users who want to quickly
check when a specific task has been completed), 10 seconds
(same, but for people who need more time, or who have a lot
of tasks being done at the same time), and something like 30
minutes (for people who want to have some logs of what was
checked, recently -though, in this case, the date and time
should be added to the task entry... maybe in a second
popup, though it's not that clean).
Maybe there should also be something to keep all tasks
indefinitely, while the cursor is hovering above the task
list... (you know, like in Amarok, when the timeout to hide
errors, is paused, when the mouse is hovering above the
popup -though it's not exactly the same system, because
errors in Amarok are showed above the previous ones, which
is not as good as a list like in Kontact).
Keeping the arrow and permit to configure the display of the
task list is important (making things disappear without
reason, and requiring users to do things quickly, is an
important usability problem). The two other ideas should be
noted, but it probably won't be used by more than a few
people, so it should be pretty low priority (except if
someone has the time to do it).
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