Share dialog is confusing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | ||
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ubuntuone-client-gnome | Status tracked in Trunk | |||||
Stable-4-0 |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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dobey | |||
Trunk |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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dobey | |||
ubuntuone-client-gnome (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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dobey | |||
Quantal |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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dobey |
Bug Description
The dialog that appears when you right click > Ubuntu One > share... is very confusing. It's not immediately apparent what you're meant to do with the dialog, especially if you don't have any Ubuntu One contacts.
I've created a mockup of a new dialog that I think is more straight forward and obvious.
* The main entry is made very clear with both a label (To:) and an entry hint (Name or Email Address).
* We use automatic suggestions to display Ubuntu One contacts that may match the query.
* Selecting one of these contacts converts their name into a button. This both makes sure the user knows that the name is "locked in" and allows for quick removal if they should change their mind.
* An icon, the name of the object, and it's size are displayed as a confirmation of the purpose of the dialog and to know what exactly it is we're sharing.
Related branches
- Brian Curtin (community): Approve
- Roberto Alsina (community): Approve
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Diff: 2122 lines (+55/-1919)14 files modifiedconfigure.ac (+1/-1)
nautilus/Makefile.am (+0/-31)
nautilus/add-contact-dialog.c (+0/-137)
nautilus/add-contact-dialog.h (+0/-50)
nautilus/contacts-view.c (+0/-855)
nautilus/contacts-view.h (+0/-81)
nautilus/highlight.c (+0/-162)
nautilus/highlight.h (+0/-29)
nautilus/share-dialog.c (+54/-52)
nautilus/test-contacts-picker.c (+0/-98)
nautilus/test-highlight.c (+0/-90)
nautilus/u1-contacts-picker.c (+0/-269)
nautilus/u1-contacts-picker.h (+0/-61)
po/POTFILES.in (+0/-3)
tags: | added: desktop+ |
affects: | ubuntuone-client → ubuntuone-client-gnome |
Changed in ubuntuone-client-gnome: | |
assignee: | nobody → Ubuntu One Desktop+ team (ubuntuone-desktop+) |
Changed in ubuntuone-client-gnome: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in ubuntuone-client-gnome (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-12.10-beta-1 |
assignee: | nobody → Rodney Dawes (dobey) |
status: | New → Triaged |
I've been staring at the current form for a few minutes and still can't figure out what to do. I'm attaching the current screen for comparison to your mock-up.