[sldev] RFC: design proposal for VWR-1071

Ricky kf6kjg at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 21:39:48 PDT 2009


(for the 2nd time, and including Tigro's response...)

Clever idea, but something about dissappearing/reappearing fields bugs me...

One thing I've seen on some web sites is an example of what an entery should
look like for fields that may be confusing.  (Like, how do you type a phone
number?  +12345678901, +1 (234) 567-8901, etc.)  So for this case, a piece
of text (yay, more to translate...) showing something like "Jacob Marley"
either directly above or below the login field.

This combined with inline (shows what you may be wanting to type ahead of
the cursor,) and drop-down (shows a list of matching entries, if more than
one,) auto-complete, would be workable.  Just be sure to migrate over the
stored login from the old settings, and most people won't even notice!

Anyone who's used the wiki or JIRA online login is already familiar with how
to put in their login in Username+Password style.  If the required space is
missing when the login button is pressed, generate a popup or other
notification that explains the problem.

My 12.5 cents,
Ricky
Cron Stardust

--- Tigro's response ---

what if the single field was as big as the two fields combined? it
wouldn't be a appearing/disapearing field, only the separation between
the fields would disapear, they would visually merge into a single one
(or int he opposite direction, the single field woudl split into two)

ps:did you meant to send this only to me or to the whole list? if for
the whole list, feel free to fwd my reply along with your second attempt
to send this

-- my response --

That could work, the idea of making the fields the same size, but might
become a little difficult to maintain over time and across different UI
scales.  Technically the UI scaling thing should be ok, but I've seen too
much breakage in that area to trust it... :P

But I think that it would be easier to just add a line showing an example.
After all, it's the new user that we are worried about here, not someone who
HAS been using the program... Those who already have a settings file should
get their login transferred on over automagically, and most likely won't
even notice the difference. (Especially if your suggestion is taken, in
part, and the new unified field matches the width of both of the distinct
fields.)

Ricky
Cron Stardust

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Tigro Spottystripes <
tigrospottystripes at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about making the thing dynamic, if a space is inserted in the first
> name field turn it into a full name field and make the last name field
> disapear, and leave a setting somewhere on the preferences window to
> make it default to a single field and switch to double if no space is in
> the field and the user presses TAB or somthing ?
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