Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] menu user-friendliness?

[Mikhail Kovalenko <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Michael wrote:
>> I'd use neither but instead say "Parent directory" or "Higher-level 
>> directory" or something even more descriptive.
> 
> Hrm it's not really anything having to do with directories...
> 

Oh... Well, then it will depend on your interface and its flow. IMO, a brief 
description is still better than a symbol that may not mean anything to some.

>> As a good example of poor usability design, see Mozilla's Save As and 
>> Save All dialogs (especially version 1.2 and earlier).
> 
> I don't have an old version. The current version looks okay to me.. 
> better than most apps to be honest. What'd be your complaints? It looks 
> a lot better than most X apps (especially non KDE/Gnome apps) and less 
> confussing than XP. My only complaint is that the '..' seems to have 
> Japanese symbols or something instead of the '..' - I can't really tell 
> what it's meant to be really.
> 

Mozilla 1.2.1 seems to mimic MacOS's file-saving dialogs, but they really 
didn't think them through, IMHO. For example, there was no "Create new 
directory" button before Mozilla 1.2; the "Look in" drop-down list and the "Go 
up a level" button do the same thing. But best of all, if you try to save all 
attachments in Mozilla Mail via "Save All..." dialog, it asks you to pick a 
directory name but *not open it*, even though if you create a new directory, 
Mozilla opens it for you. You can either go to the parent and then pick it 
again or type in a dot for current directory. The typing ruins the consistency 
of the dialog, and the directory changing is annoying, especially if you have 
a lot of them. It took me a while to start simply typing the dot...  :)

-- 
MK

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