Re: [ jEdit-users ] usability

[Slava P. <sl...@je...>]

On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 05:19, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Did anyone catch my remarks about 'Open with Encoding' and 'BufferList' of
> Jan 23rd?

I don't recall what your remarks about 'open with encoding' were.

> - the default toolbar is overcrowded. See
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/toolbars.html for
> some guidelines about toolbars. I know I can customize it (that's good)
> but by default, the buttons for Help and Global/Buffer preferences are
> superfluous, as well as the Find and Find Next buttons. Either those
> functions are readily accessible from the menu/search bar or not often
> used.

How do other people feel about the tool bar? Does anyone have
suggestions for a better layout?

> - nit: it's already somewhat confusing that the Search menu contains Find,
> Search and Replace items. (What's the difference between Find and Search)?
> But it gets even more strange because the Search bar label says 'Search
> for:' whereas it should do the same thing as the Find menu item, only
> quicker.

So you want the 'Search in Open Buffers' and 'Search in Directory' items
to be renamed to 'Find in Open Buffers', 'Find in Directory'?

> - Prefs - Docking. Comboboxes should not be used for two mutually
> exclusive options like (tab position) top or bottom; it is better to use
> radio buttons here. For the Dockables I'd say take another perspective:
> instead of listing all dockables and having a combobox with
> top/bottom/left/right; have four listboxes for top, bottom, left and right
> and make it possible to add (or even drag) available dockables to those
> listboxes. This makes it easier to see which plugin goes where.

jEdit 4.0 no longer has that combo box in the docking pane so that
doesn't apply. As for drag and drop, I'd love to add that, but
apparently drag and drop with lightweight controls is broken until JDK
1.4.

-- 
Slava Pestov