Archive for November, 2004

Date notation and IM logs

Monday, November 29th, 2004

Speaking of dates, I have been working on a design for an IM log viewer for Beagle (well, it would be in Gaim ideally of course) and how to make it easier to use.
This is how the Gaim viewer currently looks. It does sort the logs by date, but each item is in a […]

Small Details: Date

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

One thing we really should look into in Gnome is how we represent date strings. I like the new Evolution alarm dialog a lot, but instead of having

Start time: Tue 11/23/2004 01:30 PM
Start time: Tue 11/24/2004 09:00 AM
Start time: Tue 11/29/2004 3:30 PM

…we could have something like:

Start time: Today, 1:30 pm
Start time: Tomorrow. 9:00 am
Start […]

A problem with Glade..

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

One of the things that hurt me when doing user interface mockups with Glade is that I cannot add content to list widgets. This would be very good for testing different ideas.
Instead I need to take a screenshot of an application that has a gtk list, and then use the Gimp to change the contents […]

“JPEG” tile in beagle..

Thursday, November 11th, 2004

So, a bit more tweaks (I hope you dont get bored by these :-)) - this is indeed a real screenshot and not just a mockup - you can see it from the scrollbars, I would use gtk ones if it was a mockup since that is the goal definitely..
I added some more information […]

Some tweaks for Beagle

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

So, I tweaked the stylesheet a bit today to make photos (basically jpegs and files that have “.thumbnails” in their path) to have a nice photo-frame in beagle list. I think it looks nice. The “.thumbnails” is just for the future - it would make much sense to use the thumbnails from apps that […]