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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	"Lucas Sandery [three am design]" <lucas@threeamdesign.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] gitk: Replace "next" and "prev" buttons with down and up arrows.
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:04:48 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140122110448.GB7306@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DE932E.7090008@xiplink.com>

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:33:02AM -0500, Marc Branchaud wrote:
> On 13-12-18 11:04 AM, Marc Branchaud wrote:
> > Users often find that "next" and "prev" do the opposite of what they
> > expect.  For example, "next" moves to the next match down the list, but
> > that is almost always backwards in time.  Replacing the text with arrows
> > makes it clear where the buttons will take the user.
> 
> Any opinions on this, either way?
> 
> I've grown fond of the down/up arrows.  I find them much clearer than the
> current next/prev buttons.
> 
> My only niggle about this patch is that the buttons are much smaller,
> requiring a bit more precision clicking.  But the smaller buttons allow more
> room for other widgets.

I showed it to a few colleagues who use gitk a lot.  One was
indifferent, the others liked it, so I have applied it.

Thanks,
Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-22 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-01  2:31 gitk next/prev buttons Lucas Sandery [three am design]
2013-10-02  1:08 ` Lucas Sandery
2013-10-08 17:50 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-10-08 19:36   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-10-08 20:45     ` Marc Branchaud
2013-12-18 16:04     ` [PATCHv2] gitk: Replace "next" and "prev" buttons with down and up arrows Marc Branchaud
2014-01-21 15:33       ` Marc Branchaud
2014-01-22 11:04         ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2014-01-22 20:18           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-23 11:08             ` Paul Mackerras
2014-01-23 16:51               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-08 20:49   ` [PATCH] gitk: Rename "next" and "prev" buttons to "older" and "newer" Marc Branchaud

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