Bug 203677

Summary:	"send file" cancel very hard to find
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	arne anka <kde-bugs>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	mattr
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description arne anka 2009-08-13 11:04:00 UTC

Version:           0.70.90 (using 4.3.00 (KDE 4.3.0), Debian packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.28

how does one cancel a file transfer?
in the systray the notification icon does something, clicking does only show a .. dunno, what that is supposed to be, maybe one day it will be a progress bar?
no buttons, nothing.
left corner, there's something blue ... clicking removes the lower part ... 
right corner ... hm, what could that be? a "transfer" icon?
clicking ... some kind of dialog, with a big fat "More" button, but still no obvious way to cancel ....
"More" just shows a line with speed ... and teh b uttoin turns to "less", still fat, still no button to cancel ...
oh, there's two other icons, rather small, could that be ...
hitting the one with the square ... "Job canceled by user."

wow! now, that's intuitive! took me only 3 minutes to figure out! great!
all the usability gurus will be pretty proud of that achievement ...

Comment 1 Matt Rogers 2009-09-06 21:41:50 UTC

Sorry but this bug report is not useful. It's basically just a rant about how hard it is to find the cancel button, which is not a bug report. Open another bug report that's less of a rant and then we can talk.

Comment 2 arne anka 2009-09-07 11:18:10 UTC

what exactly didn't you understand?
i wrote down a detailed course of action a user is confronted with -- if you not able to check that from a usability point of view and rethink the way of action you user is supposed to do, maybe someone else should take over?

if you need plain simple:sentences: make it easy and intuitive. the way it was in kde3 frinst was rather easy to understand.
that popping up and down of black things with confusing icons and little or no information is useless -- although it matches the questionable ideas of usability implemented throughout kde4, where artwork are far more worth than functionality.