About the GetIt UI in Delphi 10 Seattle…
Is it old fashioned of me to expect to be able to use a UI with keyboard only? GetIt requires a mouse.
About the GetIt UI in Delphi 10 Seattle…
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About the GetIt UI in Delphi 10 Seattle…
Is it old fashioned of me to expect to be able to use a UI with keyboard only? GetIt requires a mouse.
Well, it’s a visual packet manager,so I think that using a mouse is just fine. Sounds like a job for an intern 🙂
I would like to be able to scroll, too. Instead there are pages of some sort. Why do I have to click a button to go back or forward at all?
I filed a bug about that but…
There are so many places Delphi needs a good UI designer in charge of the released product. I volunteer – seriously. I’d be very happy to clean up the UI.
Yeah… it is a paradox that in some places, the UI is showing it’s age, while in others, the developer is showing a lack of experience…
https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-10492 is my bug report. Feel free to vote. I phrased it in terms of usability rather than flat-out saying “this is wrong/bad” etc, so feel free to also comment about that. (I believe the reason it was phrased like that was that that bug must have been filed in the XE8 beta phase, and then migrated over to the normal bug repository. At the time, since it was pre-release, I was trying to persuade them to change the UI, and was being really polite and addressing (I assumed) a UI designer who’d understand my point. Now, it’s a matter of having released a bad UI and fixing it.)
Yes. Unfortunately in both cases the result is bad – in some places just not looking good, in other a matter of usability issues.
I personally think that looks matter – that people judge by appearances. If something is visually polished and perfect you assume it is internally too, even if it isn’t. Visual Studio is a good example of this – a fantastic amount of effort has gone in to its main UI. I would love to see Delphi’s main window looking as visually perfect as the VS main window. I bet it would affect Delphi’s reputation – simply because it looked better.
My 2c would be to have a few configuration options in terms of display. optional scroll window or paged and for sure keyboard functionality. With a few optional configurations it should keep everyone happy, lets face it everyone likes things slightly different, although good UI never fails to impress. Maybe the designer has a touch screen and never uses a keyboard…