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On 10-12-28 1:28 PM, Bryan Clark wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4D1A5665.2050208@gnome.org" type="cite">*
Final Thought! *
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Something I'd like people to think about and I'll try include this
in my next rev of the mockup is creating a preference system that
isn't just static controls. For example the Screenshot of New
Account Central [1] uses simple graphs to help people understand
the information presented. One tab I'm trying to work on right
now is a "Disk Space" tab which helps people understand what
accounts are using what kind of disk space and allows them to turn
off sync inside those accounts. Things like this are a bit more
work inside XUL than they are in HTML just because most of the
javascript graphing systems are expecting HTML and not XUL; it's
not impossible just awkward.
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Quick follow up with an update. I did a quick prototype of a disk
space preference section to help describe what I was talking about.<br>
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This isn't very interactive or functional yet but I can keep working
on it to make it that way. There is a lot that could be done to
interactively show how much space is being used by accounts and how
much (roughly) will be saved as options are changed. I want to keep
thinking of a better preferences system in this way while we're also
merging the settings and preferences together.<br>
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(now on source control)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://clarkbw.github.com/Thunderbird-Mega-Preferences/#disk-space">http://clarkbw.github.com/Thunderbird-Mega-Preferences/#disk-space</a><br>
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<i>Just want to note</i> that I'm not arguing that this isn't
possible in XUL because I believe it is, just that I can easily get
this mock-up working in HTML but my XUL protovis experiment is
having some errors to which there isn't much help out there online
or otherwise to fix it.<br>
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* Support Issues *<br>
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Another good step in our process should be to collect some data
about support issues with account settings and preferences. What
are users having a hard time finding and what are they trying to
work with the most. I added the Junk section because I see lots of
support issues with people finding and changing the junk behavior
from mark to move.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
~ Bryan<br>
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