Usability is a huge scientific field for itself. Many bigger opensource applications make some heavy (compared to previous practice) work on usability, including Gnome, Firefox, Fedora etc. I specially know a little of the efforts at Gnome. I know it at code level only is a small part that is the GU...
Dionoea: I think the graphic should be less and simple (read: only the cone ). I do not have much talent in artwork, so have no idea what else could be put there.
Some of these are promised to come sometime in the future, but here I list my most-hated list on the VLC playlist: - the playlist doesn't remember my last played list (or last opened files at all) - when chosing the playlist from the taskbar, only the playlist come in front, not the player itself (s...
Many other projects has great succes in starting different contest to find a logo, a new about dialog etc. A similar one could maybe be started if there is need for it.
Dionoea, do you have something particulary in mind when you say featuring more than the logo?
I totally agree on the critism. I think a touch on the gui would be great. I made a sketch on something as easy as the about dialog on http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=14030 . The user experience with the media player should be more in focus. E.g. I use it as music player to. On that part t...
I just wondered. The about box for Firefox: http://www.mutethis.net/images/firefox.png The about box for VLC Media Player at the moment: http://www.mutethis.net/images/vlc.png Wouldn't it look better if it was something like: http://www.mutethis.net/images/new.png At least as a start. Where click on...