Re: [Gnumed-devel] draft gnumed-client 0.4.6-1 menus

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 03:25:39PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> I note empirically the method alt-Letter to jump to menus... is it so on 
> both Windows and Linux?
It should, yes.

> Can Alt-F for "Find" or Alt-S for "Search" be implemented to jump the  
> focus into the patient search box
yes

> with all of the text within selected? 
no

> Does this require that a menu item be added under the Patient menu
yes

> (which  maybe it should, anyway)?
> --> wishlist?
yes

> Check for updates
> - when the client is up to date, the user thinks this item does not  
> work, as the only evidence is the status line at the bottom left of the 
> window.
That line is there for reading. If people don't read it
anyway we better get rid of it.

> Suggest:
> 1. might we update the status line, which currently says "Your client is 
> up to date", to "Your client <v #> is up to date"

Done.

> (but only if this adds no maintenance for future versions).
It doesn't.

> Announce maintenance
> - ok to rename "Announce downtime" ?

Done.

> - when this is selected, the user has no way to know if it "works" and 
> maybe they are currently programmatically excluded from the  
> notification, but maybe *should* be included so they can know that it  
> works? Alternatively update the status line (which says nothing)?

I am getting both a status line message and a popup just
like any other client.

> also with "Announce maintenance" --> "Announce downtime" the user does 
> not know the actual outgoing message. Is it intended to be assumed to be 
> immediate, or is it intended for the user to be able to communicate a 
> text comment like  "in 5 minutes" or "tonight"?

It is intended to not give the user a false sense of
security. They should disconnect *now*. They *can* try to
save their current work but they better hurry up *now*.

Users will inevitably cry "but it said 5 minutes and I saved
my progress note at 4:59 where did it go ?"

> can this same mechanism be used to dispatch an interoffice memo
yes

> (Office menu option = Announce info) e.g.
> - praxis manager leaving early in 10 minutes if no-one needs her
> --> wishlist?
No, that's what chat clients are for.

> likewise under Help menu could this functionality help the in-praxis  
> situation of a cardiac arrest (Help menu = Announce emergency)
yes, I have contemplated that

I'd make it much easier accessible than under "Help" but, yes.

> - capacity to include / display originating username?
> - capacity to include / display machine location?
both

> --> wishlist?
yes

> lock client
> - maybe not yet implemented, if not envisioned for 0.6 rename to
> - lock client (future)
> --> medium?
No. Use one of a million operating system user activity
timeout locking screensavers for that. Remnant code
deactivated.

Karsten
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