UISpecs

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Summary

This specification describes the User Interface of the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MediaCenter/SoftwareSpecs Ubuntu Media Center software].

The aim is to create a friendly, efficient, easy, unique... user interface. This specification deals with the graphical layout, the menu navigation, icons thematic,...

This specification is under active discussion

Icons thematic reminder

The idea is to have a thematic reminder on each sub-menu icon. This will help users in identifying easily their current location in the UMC menu tree.

For example:

  • If you choose to play music from a CD, you will select Music and then CD. You would see: This icon for Music: attachment:note.png and then for the CD sub-menu: attachment:cd.png
  • The Movie menu has an icon of movie strip. Selection the DVD sub menu would then display a disc with the same movie strip at the top right.

This thematic reminder helps a lot in the menu navigation.

In Elisa's default skin, the menu icon (Music, Movie...) is put in the foreground upon menu selection. When you select a menu item, like movie, the sub menu icon is shown and the previous icon list is displayed in the foreground:

  • attachment:menu2.png

You always have several menu entries shown.

With the Icon Thematic Reminder, we don't need to keep the previous menu entry(ies). We thus avoid to overload the User Interface, while remaining contextual and "menu location friendly".

Comment (AQ): The Icon Thematic Reminder approach combined with an Apple's [http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html Time Machine] like navigation would give a great result.

[https://core.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/wiki/MenuDescription Document from elisa track]

Reference

Apple's [http://youtube.com/watch?v=nryeEYK7jmA&mode=related&search= Front Row]