Projects in the topic usability


[Yast] Provide useful understandable error messages for Storage

an idea by locilka

It has probably already happened to you: Creating volume /dev/sda2 failed with error -1008 Did it tell anything useful to you? Maybe if Storage gave you some more info, you could have continued, fix the problem by yourself.

Updated almost 5 years ago. 3 hacker ♥️. Has no hacker: grab it!

All documentation as program code

an invention by jsmeix

I like to try out if it is possible to write a program that does not have any kind of the traditionally separated documentation (like external files that contain the documentation texts or comments in the program code). Instead all documentation must be implemented as code at the same place where the matching functiomnality is implemented (i.e. each function implements also its documentation). In the end the user should get only the executable that he can run to let it do the intended functionality and also to provide any kind of documentation. What I do not want is a dumb '--help' option that lets the program spit out its built-in documentation. What I would like to have is that the user can run the executable in some kind of self-inspecting way. I mean: While it does the intended functionality, it can also provide documentation so that the user can explore the program while running it. In the end the user experience should be more like a text adventure ;-)

Updated almost 5 years ago. 1 hackers ♥️.

Improve Jangouts UI

a project by ancorgs

The current Jangouts UI is limiting us when thinking about adding new features. Some examples: * This (using the whole thumbnail to pin a participant) was implemented, but the result is far from optimal (I have not even deployed it in production).

Updated almost 5 years ago. 6 hacker ♥️.

QDirStat - Qt-based directory statistics: KDirStat without any KDE, now based on Qt 5

a project by shundhammer

This is about porting the old KDE 3 based KDirstat to the latest Qt 5. KDirStat didn't use that much KDE infrastructure to begin with, and KDE seems to be more and more a moving target. Project repo and web site with more details:

Updated about 2 years ago. 6 hacker ♥️.

SUSE Manager: Better feedback for scheduled actions

a project by fkobzik

Motivation

Running async actions in SUSE Manager lacks a user-friendly feedback. For instance, running a salt highstate on a system:

Updated about 2 years ago. 3 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

UI/UX User testing and feedback

a project by lharden

Project Description

Gather quantitative/qualitative feedback to inform usability and interface decisions.

Updated about 3 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. 3 followers.