Friday 3 July 2009
Half a decade
By hub, Friday 3 July 2009 at 21:30 :: Life
Half a decade ago I landed in Canada. Not sure what happened since, but that's surely 5 years.
Friday 3 July 2009
By hub, Friday 3 July 2009 at 21:30 :: Life
Half a decade ago I landed in Canada. Not sure what happened since, but that's surely 5 years.
By hub, Friday 3 July 2009 at 13:55 :: AbiWord
AbiWord had a long lasting usability issue: pressing the insert key caused to toggle the overwrite mode on and off. When doing so we provided two different feedback to the user:
This lead to different kind of complaints:
See bug 3641
This reveal two problems. The first one is that the user didn't realise something happened. I hit a random key (ie he didn't realise which one) and something happened. The second the user noticed the caret changed colour, but still didn't know why.
I had a few ideas in mind.
How I did implement it:
What can be done in the future?
But that was a real paper cut for AbiWord. Not the only one, just one of them, and it was not that hard to fix. For the sake of it, I did it watching the BSG mini-series for the 3rd time.