Michael de Hoog

During usability testing, a user accidentally minimized/maximized a part, and couldn't get back to the original layout. Perhaps this should be an advanced feature that is disabled by default?

During usability testing, a number of users tried to interact with the compass HUD. This should be possible, like Google Earth.

When an Eclipse error occurs, the notification popup shows "Error in event loop handler", which doesn't mean anything to the user. The notification popup should probably not be shown for...

Catalog nodes with non-HTML information URLs cause the URL to be opened in an external program. For example, the ASTER catalog node information URL points to a PDF, which opens...

Two layers are added by default on application startup, the NASA Blue Marble Image layer and the Blue Marble May 2004 layer. When zoomed out, these layers appear the same,...

Sometimes things happen in EarthSci that are not obvious to the user that something has changed. An example of this is, when clicking a WMS capabilities link in the Browser...

The results view in the discovery part is a bit ugly and unusable. It also doesn't portray the type of result for each row (eg does it contain a WMS...

The Eclipse design of attaching functionality to parts using toolbars is not obvious to everyone, as noticed during usability testing. We should provide alternative ways of accessing any functionality provided...

During usability testing a user commented that zoom-to-layer is slow. Perhaps need to speed it up. However, we need to ensure that speed is consistent for layers of different sector...

When toggling many layers, there is no visual indication of what happened. This is often because the layer is out of zoom range (lots of empty top levels), or the...