Hi Chris! On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 16:36 +0000, Chris Lumens wrote: > This raises an important question about how we go about adding these new > interfaces. The proposal is pretty drastically different in style from > everything else in anaconda. Do we merge in a single completely > different UI for one screen and have it look very out of place, or do we > wait to merge until the rest of the UI looks similar? I think it's your call which approach is best. If it'd be helpful I could remix each set of mockups to fit the current layout / widget look & feel / patterns in today's Anaconda. If I understand then the choices would be: - build all new ui on a different branch and wait until it's complete to merge... using an all-new look & feel, etc. - update the current screens as is possible using the existing look & feel / constraints piece-by-piece / screen-by-screen, and once that is complete, then later on go back and update them to a revamped look & feel and make some UI pattern changes too (e.g., kill pop-up windows, introduce overlays). I don't think you'd ever want to introduce one or two screens with this totally out-there look & feel in the middle of what you've got now... it's too jarring. > As long as we have a way for the user to verify they're typing in the > layout they chose, it's fine. It doesn't matter to me whether it's a > magic light up layout image or a text box. However, it does seem like > the layout image is harder to discover that you can use for > verification. Without the focus stealing, you'd have to know to put the > mouse over it first. I don't know that we can do the focus stealing. > And if we do, can we still make the keyboard accelerators for Back/Next > work right? Yeh the light-up map is clever but the discoverability is a pain-in-the-butt. Maybe having a simple text widget that fills in as you type makes the most sense. I think it's still good to have a visual of the keyboard layout though so you can compare it to the one under your fingers more easily. I'll play with the mockup and see how that might work. ~m _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
