Bug 149204

Summary: Improve UI for session restore application exclusion
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component: kcm_smserverAssignee: Lubos Lunak <l.lunak>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: LO    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258418
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2007-08-25 21:43:21 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Application exclusion is not too user-friendly (not intuitive for sure).

Please add listbox with list of applications, edit-box would serve as entry point, please add button [open] to select specific application (I would not bet what happen if I just type "abc").
Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2007-08-25 23:29:50 UTC 
Never tried the "What's this?" help? It's very handy, not only in this case.
Comment 2 Pino Toscano 2007-08-25 23:33:55 UTC 
Oh, and the small manual page of that module (reachable via click on the '?' button on the top-right corner) says that as well.
Comment 3 Maciej Pilichowski 2007-08-26 08:46:45 UTC 
Pino,
0) there is big [help] button as well and it is much harder to miss :-)
1) need for using help is proof that GUI is not intuitive
2) even with "help" (I tried it) it is still not user friendly (is "abc" /usr/bin/abc or /usr/local/share/bin/abc ?)
3) with several apps it looks bad

Thus the wish.
Comment 4 Pino Toscano 2007-08-26 12:10:52 UTC 
> 1) need for using help is proof that GUI is not intuitive

The fact that the help system exists is there for a reason, otherwise the same thought can be applied on every software out there.

> 2) even with "help" (I tried it) it is still not user friendly (is "abc" /usr/bin/abc or /usr/local/share/bin/abc ?)

All the examples give "foo:bar", with no paths.

> 3) with several apps it looks bad

... no comment here.
Comment 5 Maciej Pilichowski 2007-08-26 12:45:09 UTC 
> > 1) need for using help is proof that GUI is not intuitive 
> The fact that the help system exists is there for a reason, otherwise the
> same thought can be applied on every software out there. 

And it is -- I used help < 10 times in my life I think. In other words -- if I am forced to use it, I assume the UI is not intuitive. And in this case how can it be -- how can you guess how you should enter apps names?

> > 2) even with "help" (I tried it) it is still not user friendly
> (is "abc" /usr/bin/abc or /usr/local/share/bin/abc ?) 
> All the examples give "foo:bar", with no paths. 

Sure, and I still don't know which "foo" it is. But better let's stop here -- my wish is about app, not help.