tedit development and design discussion
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@domubpkm I rephrased the dialog a bit. Should be better now.
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@jezek I never used hashes to compare anything, but sounds like a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion. Although this may need to wait for a future version too.
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@danfro Another suggestion (personal opinion) for a future update: the order of the options icons, whether in the vertical main menu or the horizontal menu, could be revised. I read from left to right and top to bottom.
On this principle: I will put this order: for the icons mentioned: select all, copy, paste, empty the area, empty the clipboard.. -
@domubpkm So far I kept the exiting order from the menu to the toolbar.
The order in the menu seems to make sense to me. First file actions (new, open, save, save as), then text area actions (undo, redo, select all, clear all), followed by clipboard actions (paste, copy, clear) and at the end special actions. But of course that is grouped by kind of internal functionality. This may not be obvious to the user.Your suggested order would mix clipboard and text area options, but I can see some pattern from a users point of view. Maybe we can get some more opinions here from other users. The change is easily done...
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@domubpkm I decided to do the button reordering. I also moved the exit button to the right top corner. That is where most other (desktop) apps have the close X button. And I fixed the colors of the icons on bad contrast as reported above. It would be great if you could please give the last build another test. If things work fine, I would consider this ready to be released.
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@danfro Great work. Reordering the icons makes sense from the user's point of view. The contrast is perfect. Overall, a great update. THANK YOU !
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@domubpkm Thank you for all testing and suggestions.
I am not going to work on file filtering or such for this release. But this is on my todo list near the top. I hope it proofs not to be too difficult.
But I think about sneaking one small change into this release to hopefully make finding a file a bit easier. What do you think about having encrypted file names being colored different? I can imagine, this helps to visually filter files when you are looking for an encrypted file only.
I can make them colored orange for instance. I would not use blue, red or green. The mean "activity", "positive" or "negative" in our UI guidelines.
EDIT: There would be a switch in settings to turn the highlight off/on (default is on).
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@danfro Or another idea (yeah, it never stops
), it might be more consistent to show the padlock icon for encrypted files. This can be of course combined with the (optional, setting) file name color.
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@danfro Good idea to put the encrypted notes in another color. this will help a little. For the color to respect, why not orange in fact, or a purple which makes a slightly less significant contrast. Your idea of giving encrypted files a different color makes me think that in the future, encrypted and unencrypted files could, if desired, be grouped into two groups.
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@domubpkm I actually had the idea of providing filters for encrypted/not encrypted. But not sure if that will work with searching. Yes, maybe grouping is another options that I can consider.
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@domubpkm said in tedit development and design discussion:
or a purple
I thought about purple too. But there we would need two purples to provide good contrast in dark and bright theme. Orange works for both.
From first tests, purple looks actually better than orange in dark theme, but not good in bright theme.
I could provide a setting with no color/orange/purple of course. But not sure if I get that ready for this release. -
@danfro Actually purple does look better than orange. I just need to find the right purple or purples. No orange I think...
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@danfro Another idea that could help in the search: the possibility of favorite files.
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@domubpkm Yes, true. Not sure how easy that can be done. But I add it to my ideas list. Once I start working on that, its good to have several options to test.
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@danfro artifact #1261354733 . low readability for 'required file name'. Otherwise everything seems ok to me.
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@domubpkm Thanks for mentioning this. Although I saw it myself, I didn't look into it yet.
Although this really needs to be fixed in the toolkit itself since it should affect all buttons system wide, I tested an workaround which I think brings some improvement here. Not perfect, but not too much hacking involved.
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@danfro Indeed, readability is slightly improved with both themes.
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Tedit release v3.4.0 is out. Please head for OpenStore to get the update.
v3.4.0
- added: toolbar for quick access to several commands from the menu, reordered some menu entries to match button order
- added: exit button which checks for unsaved changes, some header redesign related to this
- added: option to highlight file names of excrypted files in file list
- improved: excrypted files in file list are now marked with the padlock icon
- improved: file name in main screen now shows storage path
- improved: change icon to view passwort for the common eye icon
- improved: edit file button behaviour and design in file list
- improved: note on file storage now gives some more information
- improved: several input fields now get focus when opening the page, thus opening the OSK
- improved: fix #13 by rephrasing some error messages to be more helpful for the user
- improved: some buttons with long text are now bigger and use word wrap
- improved: readability of save dialog button in disabled state
- removed: string "saved: true/false" since the label color and save button enabled/disabled indicate saved state
- fixed: top margin at file list page being a bit too small
- fixed: error in hash calculator where proceed wouldn't work
- updated: translations, many thanks to all translators!
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@danfro I really like the new design. Thanks for the great work!
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Works very well! Translations have been fully updated!
Thank you!
