Re: [xine-devel] Re: [xine-user] "your system is too slow"

[Miguel F. <mfr...@gm...>]

Hi Siggi,

On Mon, 24 May 2004 08:13:44 +0200 (CEST), Siggi Langauf
<si...@us...> wrote:
> 
> I've tried CVS, and while I like the idea, there are still some usability
> concerns:
> 
> - The default for the check box changes current behavior. This is
>   generally bad, as people expect things to stay as they are if they do
>   nothing.

ok, this is easy to change. i thought about leaving it checked by
default given the negative feedback we received about this dialog...
however, thinking again about it i now agree with you.

 
> - The label is printed boldface. As it's not a heading or warning, it
>   should look like all other text. It's not more important than the rest
>   of the dialog, even if that means some people won't read it. Those
>   people will just get the dialog again, until they are motivated enough
>   to disable it.

ok. i didn't noticed this. i guess it was result of copy/pasting the
font name from somewhere else.

> - The label uses negation ("Don't..."), which makes more complicated to
>   read. "Show this warning when dropping too many frames" is a little bit
>   better, "Disable this warning" is probably best.

"Disable this warning" is very good to me.

 
> - Clicking the label doesn't change ckeckbox state. (This is a bug in
>   xitk, I know...)

it should be possible to fix, i saw code somewhere else in xine-ui
that does that.

 
> - The URL looks a bit lost on the dialog. How about putting it in another
>   dialog that appears when "Learn more..." is clicked? That dialog could
>   also contain more options to open the URL (open with konqueror, mozilla,
>   galeon, ...; copy URL to clipboard, ...)

i agree with you, however, i'm not much skilled in xitk programming.
it would take me some time to create this new dialog. if somebody else
wants to implement this, it would be nice.


> - On my system, "Learn More..." opened a new Mozilla, which takes about
>   30s without any obvious feedback. There should be at least a warning
>   that this could take a bit. Of course, it's better to tell the running
>   instance of galeon to open another window with the URL, which takes
>   about 1s, but I guess it's not feasible to integrate xine with all
>   existing browsers...

let's see what we can do. perhaps just opening another window with 
"Opening mozilla web browser, this might take a while..."

regards,

Miguel