Interface proposal

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Hi,

I would like to make some suggestions for gespeaker's interface. I made a
couple mockups to show them graphically:

-Leave the "new", "open" and "save as" options in the menu, maybe even
remove "new" and "save as": "new" can be substituted by a "erase text"
button, which would do the same but be clearer, and I think saving text
files really is beyond gespeaker's purpose.

Move play and stop to the toolbar, next to record. The play button could
toggle play / pause states.

The preferences go from more general to more specific: language / gender /
variant.

The expander shows or hides variant-specific settings: pitch / volume /
speed / delay. It also has a button to add the current settings to a new
variant, to remove the current one or to revert to a saved variant: I think
this is the right place for the revert button - having it on the toolbar
made me wonder what exactly it was supposed to revert.

When collapsed, you can still reach basic settings.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by frandavi...@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2009 at 9:42

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• Pantallazo-2.png
• Pantallazo-2b.png

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hello and thank you for your time

I'm unsure about these gui reimplementations.
The button "New" is consistent with the user theme, so it will reflect the same
appearance in every program, changing the button caption to something else this 
app
won't reflect anymore the user theme preferences, which is heavily discouraged.

The Open button is absolutely needed.

Save button could be indeed removed, while I think to leave the save function 
on the
menubar

Gnome HIG explains well to never change the play button to pause while the 
media is
playing so both buttons play/stop and pause have to exist in the gui.
The toolbar however is not used directly from the user while typing, while the 
button
below is more easily accessible.

the language combo should be indeed before the other settings, you're right
moving the language-voice-variants command out of the expander could be a good 
idea,
I think I've to give it a try

Currently variants are fixed, they don't alter the various sliders in any way, 
they
use the espeak-data voice variants without changing the voice parameters. So it 
won't
make any sense to add an add/remove button here, this feature currently doesn't 
exist
at all.

I'll add it into the whishlist, to implement later. The revert button could be 
moved
near these two buttons as soon they will exist.

off topic: I'm still looking for someone to help me in translate gespeaker in 
spanish
language. could you help me? it should require you a couple of minutes if 
spanish is
your language

thank you

Original comment by mufl...@vbsimple.net on 1 Jul 2009 at 7:06

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Milestone-Later

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moreover the Gnome HIG tells: "Do not use drop-down lists with fewer than three
items.. To offer a choice of two options, use radio buttons or toggle buttons."

while I like your voice male/female combobox Gnome recommends to use two option
buttons instead of a dropdown box

Original comment by mufl...@vbsimple.net on 1 Jul 2009 at 7:14

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi! Thanks for your reply.

"Gnome HIG explains well to never change the play button to pause while the 
media is
playing so both buttons play/stop and pause have to exist in the gui"

Maybe we could go the same way as rhythmbox, and show the play button as pressed
while it's playing, then unpress it to pause?

"I'm still looking for someone to help me in translate gespeaker in spanish
language. could you help me?"

Sure, no problem. I'll try to do that as soon as possible, then send you the
resulting .po file.

Original comment by frandavi...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2009 at 7:41

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The play button actually works in a similar way, except it stops instead of 
pause the
audio. what's the real difference between a play/pause + stop buttons and a 
play/stop
+ pause buttons?

I had some trouble on commit the svn, google repository was not reachable.
Now the svn is updated

thank you

Original comment by mufl...@vbsimple.net on 1 Jul 2009 at 7:58

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the new interface now has moved the settings in two sections, with basic for
language, voice and variants, and advanced for all others settings

this issue wil remain opened for the future user's variant settings

Original comment by mufl...@vbsimple.net on 18 Jul 2009 at 12:27

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