Buttons should not be active when they have no action
Bug #524820 reported by
cameleon
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple Scan |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I think it would be better to inactive the buttons when they don't have any sens.
For example:
- Stop button should not be active when you don't perform a scan action (maybe it should only appear during scanning, with a sort of progress bar?)
- Save, print, send by email, rotate and crop should not be available before a document has been scanned.
More generally, I am not convinced by the fact to have all the buttons in a menu, because it doesn't represent very well the chaining between actions, which are:
- select scan options (color, resolution)
- perform a preview and select scan area (eventually)
- scan
- post-scan actions (rotate or crop)
- final actions (print, email or save)
Revision history for this message
| Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in simple-scan: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
Revision history for this message
| cameleon (el-cameleon-1) wrote | #2 |
Revision history for this message
| Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote | #3 |
Revision history for this message
| cameleon (el-cameleon-1) wrote | #4 |
Revision history for this message
| Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote | #5 |
Revision history for this message
| Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in simple-scan: | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| Changed in simple-scan: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
To post a comment you must log in.
Agree stop button should only be active during scanning.
Don't agree about limiting the other options:
- You can save at any time because there is always a document present (it is a blank page by default).
- You can rotate and set area at any time as there is no reason to make the user wait to perform this - a use case would be a user scanning a document and realising as it scans it's upside down.
The order of actions I see users performing are:
- Scanning the document
- Printing, emailing or saving it
Optional actions:
- Changing to text mode
- Rotating (I expect this only has to be performed once, for the next scan the rotation will probably be correct)
- Set area (only if you need to - for a lot of full page documents this is not necessarily required)
- Re-scanning if it needs it (I'm not convinced preview is necessary - do you preview with your digital camera?)