Re: 0.9.5-rc4 notes

On Apr 6, 2005 2:23 AM, Jan Depner <[email protected]> wrote:

>     The Prerequisites box is much smaller in English.  It appears that
> the reason the Russian translation is so large is that you are including
> both the English and Russian text.  Why don't you drop the English?  

Actually I do not use English text -- only URLs.

> The
> Shift-F1 boxes are that size because we want to be able to tell the user
> how to use each of the widgets without leaving anything out.  I hate
> making a user crank up a browser to read instructions.  The largest one
> I have is the scenes help and it fits within the JAMin main screen.

...and is still way too large for an information dialog. What I was
proposing is a usual smalldialog with vertically scrollable textview
widget.

> Remember, these aren't meant to be on the screen for long periods of
> time.  You're supposed to read them, learn how to use the tool, and then
> close them.  You can leave them up for a while but if the user has to
> have them up constantly I think they need to consider a new hobby ;-)

:-)

> > The last thing is that I *really* dislike my version of logo in About
> > box and I prefer Steve's over mine.
> 
>     vote--   I like yours better.

Too bad, because it says "remix me NOW" and decreasing size affected
quality of the screenshot :-)

Alexandre


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