Archive for category Usability
Icon view in the Source List
Posted by kiddo in Linux Planet, PiTiVi, Planète Ubuntu Québec, Usability on February 8th, 2010
Stephen “lostcookie” Griffiths recently started coding on PiTiVi, learning the codebase as he works through the PiTiVi Love list. He has done awesome work on the source list to implement an “icon view” mode and has managed to somehow not become insane while I pointed out all his mistakes and bugs :)
10 GUI
Posted by kiddo in Sites d'intérêt, Usability on January 27th, 2010
Take a look at this video. Hmm, a nice, refreshing approach to human-computer-interaction.
Single channel waveforms
Brandon committed a one-liner fix for bug 607614 today. Indeed, until now, if you inserted a 6-channels (5.1) clip into the timeline, you ended up with nonsense like this (as some called it, “corduroy waveforms”):
Move playhead on click, modeless splitting, full-height playhead
Posted by kiddo in Linux Planet, PiTiVi, Usability on November 30th, 2009
This week, Brandon has been doing great work in polishing little bits of PiTiVi’s timeline workflow. Indeed, he has made a second attempt at implementing my “move playhead on click” paradigm, and merged his changes into PiTiVi’s master development branch.
Themed ruler widget in PiTiVi
Posted by kiddo in GNOME, Linux Planet, PiTiVi, Usability on September 12th, 2009
Edward released PiTiVi 0.13.3 today. Brandon recently spent some time working on the timeline’s ruler, and his changes are part of that release. So now, it looks like this:
Performance vs usability
Posted by kiddo in Linux Planet, Usability on August 26th, 2009
I had an idea to make Evolution display more human-readable/stuff-I-care-about-only sender information, but it was scrapped. It is sad when you hit technical roadblocks in technology (here, performance considerations) that trump usability (well, that and the fact that the devs were not too enthusiastic about the idea to begin with).
Changer l’épaisseur des barres de défilement
Posted by kiddo in GNOME, Usability, Vie personnelle on July 26th, 2009
Comme je suis masoschiste et que j’ai maintenant un grand bureau, j’ai décidé depuis de ne plus utiliser de souris (sauf en cas de nécessité) et d’utiliser le stylet de ma tablette graphique (wacom graphire) pour voir si c’est agréable. Ben étonnamment, on s’y habitue. Par contre, y’a toujours le problème qu’un stylet manque un peu de précision quand on doit faire un simple clic sur une petite cible.
Toolbar items prioritization
Posted by kiddo in GNOME, Linux Planet, PiTiVi, Usability on July 21st, 2009
As I requested, PiTiVi now has some of its toolbar buttons prioritized. This enhances usability by giving more importance and discoverability to more commonly used buttons. It now looks like this:
Nouveau bureau ajustable
Posted by kiddo in Usability, Vie personnelle on July 18th, 2009
Variable time stretching (ramping)
Posted by kiddo in Linux Planet, PiTiVi, Usability on July 15th, 2009
Here are some initial thoughts on how slow/fast motion video (with variable speed within a clip) could be designed in PiTiVi.