Posts made by Joseph Rézeau

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Carlos,
There have been many changes to the Moodle Themes especially between 1.5 and 1.6, but continuing with every upgrade to 1.8. The lack of the link to MoodleDocs is a very minor thing, compared to lots of other changes.
Anyway, things might work out if you keep a reference to moodle 1.8's standard theme files in your own 1.5 theme's config.php file:
you should keep this:
$THEME->standardsheets = true;
or at least this:
$THEME->standardsheets = array('styles_layout');// for 1.6
Joseph
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Hi Ralf,

Thank you for a most interesting post. It's a pity, as you say, that there is no moodle forum dedicated to usability. Would it fit in the accessibility forum (I do appreciate that it's not quite the same)?

I will comment on the Editing quiz question section of your post.

When I use the current interface (1.8 or 1.9) for editing my quiz questions I keep pestering against a number of "screen objects" which get in my way rather than help me doing an efficient job. I agree with you that it does not make sense for the Feedback field to come before the questions & answers fields. I also dislike the fact that there are so many unnecessary vertical spacings which mean that a simple question edit screen can never fit on one screen but is spread out and necessitates scrolling down (see this post). By the way, this is a constant feature of moodle screens, where many could easily fit on a "standard" 1280 x 1024 screen but, because of "fancy" vertical spacing, boxes, lines, etc. you have to scroll...

Of course screen design is both a matter of taste, "design" and usability, and one man's meat is another man's poison, etc. but surely there are some basic usability facts on which most people would agree, no?

Joseph