Chi Shang Cheng wrote:
If the parent dialog is broken it is a sure negative. If you need a positive benefit then just putting an extra progressbar as a status indicator would be just fine. The More should be removed altogether or pointed to the parent so that the parent foregrounds if not already.
Grouping all progress dialogs in one panel doesn't make sense.
I beg to differ. Time taking processes have one thing in common; they ask the user to wait and watch. This drag is really more than any other relationship. No No, it is not technical, it is purely humane and philosophical.When place several items together, Gestalt psychology states that people will tend to perceive these items as related. However, placing all progress dialogs (or similar dialogs) in one central place has no meaning for the user, since all those items in that place share no semantic relationship. ........but a technical relationship ............
Very correct.Shrinking a whole window into a tiny menu item, means you'll be losing space that you could use to present information to the user.
Possibly except for single file downloads other dialogs does not fall into the category of shrinkables.Besides this disadvantage, it does has an advantage: shrinking such a window will force the developer to eliminate all unessential information, which will result in a much more clean interface.
Breaking dialogs to menu items probably would never work out in reality. However a single status docker to list ongoing processes may be useful when time-taking processes like ftp, disc burning, etc go on concurrently.The disadvantages clearly outweigh the advantages (if there are any), so from a usabilty perspective, this idea will probably not be much of an improvement. If user testing would show that this idea improves an aspect of usability (such as workflow efficiency or learnability), then I'll be convinced.
This would break up the system tray of course! It would look decent on a drop-down style but those who do have their panels at the bottom edge would possibly never enjoy using this. It puts one idea straight, grouping of time-taking process info. But to break parent dialogs is definitely a No No.
Manik
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