Re: Features from other IDEs and general usability (new features, borrowed features, and general changes)

Agree with you I have remove configuration  combo from tool bar  coz  I'm
using tool bar as  quick actions that I regular  use.Changing configuration
is not a regular tack for me so I'm happy without combo BUT I prefer split
button to change run  configuration

On 11/2/07, Wade Chandler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This isn't a rant, but just as I see some things which need to be talked
> about. I have seen others in the community mention such things. I don't want
> to single anything out, but I have picked an issue as an illustration.
>
> See:
> http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=105664
>
> for some context.
>
> I want to touch on usability as we have already mentioned Eclipse and IDEA
> in the issue above. No matter what any other IDE or project does we need to
> have our own identity and it needs to be designed, IMO of course, for ease
> of use and practicality. We can adopt features from other IDEs, but we
> should always try to make sure the implementation works into our framework
> and is very user friendly. Provide features yet innovate; we should strive
> to make it better if it can be.
>
> I don't think we need to make UI choices in a vacuum, meaning just among a
> UI or dev group, and I'm not saying this is 100% what happens either, so we
> need to make sure we have community feedback and user studies if we could
> pull them off would be good. There is a book called, "Don't make me think",
> which is more web interface directed, but the premise applies, and it
> contains cost effective ways of implementing user studies.
>
> It would be nice if someone could implement such things at NB days. We
> could have a booth with the IDE setup and a few sample projects for people
> wanted to volunteer to work through.  We would have to ask them if they are
> a long time NB user, from another IDE or not, or new to NB as the different
> contexts will matter (maybe a change was made to the IDE based on some other
> IDE...maybe it is a new feature..and if they never have used an IDE any
> feature goes). There could be a tutorial setup for which ever sample they're
> asked to walk through. Then have a camera so their reactions can be
> recorded, and there is software, as mentioned in the book, which can capture
> the screen activity. Then the users activity, facial expressions, and
> comments are all captured in place. Then everyone knows what is working and
> what isn't and has a better idea of the usability of different parts of the
> system.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wade
>
>


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Anuradha G