Bug 296943

Summary:	copy/paste feature is great, but are the icons intuitive?
Product:	[Unmaintained] Active	Reporter:	Fania Bremmer <fania.bremmer>
Component:	General	Assignee:	active
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cpigat242, lamarque, notmart, sebas
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	unscheduled
Platform:	Meego/Harmattan
OS:	Linux
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Description Fania Bremmer 2012-03-28 07:57:43 UTC

2012-03-27-15-24-basyskom-plasma-active-testing-meego-usb-live.iso 

In a small usability testing, I tested the current implementation of the copy/paste feature for text.

These are my findings:
- the touch area of the buttons is too small, I would recommend to make it double the current size
- the buttons are too close to each other - better have one button width space between them
- the feature in itself is great, but the icon metaphor was not recognized by everyone. I know that in KDE and windows the same icon language is used, but here I heard interpretations like "Duplicate" and "add new page". Maybe a small label underneath the icons would make the action easier to understand? 
- The order of the icons irritated me. Normally we say "Copy and paste". And normally this is the order the user takes: first copy the text you need, then paste them. Currently we have the buttons ordered in "paste" then "copy" - was there a specific reason to do so?

Comment 1 Lamarque V. Souza 2012-03-29 18:27:52 UTC

Which program did you use to test this? I am not able to trigger the copy & paste tool in VirtualBox.

Comment 2 Sebastian Kügler 2012-03-30 08:21:49 UTC

It only works with the PlasmaComponents.Text* classes. The addressbar in the webbrowser, for example, and the text entries in the news app.

Comment 3 Lamarque V. Souza 2012-03-30 23:12:29 UTC

Git commit c5f0b815230057cf8a5a8be0ce48a9e647208d77 by Lamarque V. Souza.
Committed on 31/03/2012 at 01:08.
Pushed by lvsouza into branch 'master'.

EditBubble.qml: put buttons in the order "copy" and then "paste", double
buttons' MouseArea sizeto make it easier to tap on them, and add space
between the buttons.

M  +21   -17   plasma/declarativeimports/plasmacomponents/platformcomponents/touch/EditBubble.qml
M  +1    -1    plasma/declarativeimports/plasmacomponents/platformcomponents/touch/TextField.qml

http://commits.kde.org/kde-runtime/c5f0b815230057cf8a5a8be0ce48a9e647208d77

Comment 4 Lamarque V. Souza 2012-04-16 01:54:32 UTC

Git commit 34732a1f1a9bd763618c722563b59e95db161fdb by Lamarque V. Souza.
Committed on 31/03/2012 at 01:08.
Pushed by lvsouza into branch 'Active/2.1'.

EditBubble.qml: put buttons in the order "copy" and then "paste", double
buttons' MouseArea sizeto make it easier to tap on them, and add space
between the buttons.
(cherry picked from commit c5f0b815230057cf8a5a8be0ce48a9e647208d77)

M  +21   -17   plasma/declarativeimports/plasmacomponents/platformcomponents/touch/EditBubble.qml
M  +1    -1    plasma/declarativeimports/plasmacomponents/platformcomponents/touch/TextField.qml

http://commits.kde.org/kde-runtime/34732a1f1a9bd763618c722563b59e95db161fdb