Bug 155647

Summary: Slideshow configuration: units used for time unclear
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Thibaut Cousin <kde>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Thibaut Cousin 2008-01-13 15:39:43 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

The dialog to configure time between background changes is a bit unclear as to the units it uses.

I agree that it doesn't take much thinking to guess that it's hours:minutes:seconds, but from a usability point of view, it could probably be more explicit.

Thanks for your attention.
Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-01-13 20:05:22 UTC
how does this look to everyone? http://bddf.ca/~aseigo/time.png

p.s. i way prefer these kinds of conversations on panel-devel rather than b.k.o =)
Comment 2 Thibaut Cousin 2008-01-14 00:48:10 UTC
I like it. :-)

Maybe there is a risk for the dialog to become too large because of that. But from a clarity point of view, it's perfect. Thank you.
Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-01-14 03:34:54 UTC
the components above it are even wider, so no worries on size i don't think. might be a bitch for the translators, but i'm sure thye'll live too =)
Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-01-14 04:16:11 UTC
SVN commit 761104 by aseigo:

clarity.
BUG:155647


 M  +2 -2      BackgroundDialog.ui  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=761104
Comment 5 Chani 2008-01-14 09:00:06 UTC
personally I'd prefer to see a dropdown box for choosing units, and have a spinbox for the number. does anyone really need to specify 3 hours 1 minute and 4 seconds?

but I'm too lazy to do anything about it.