Perhaps better than replacing the text with a throbber would be to show both side-by-side. Replacing the text would likely lead to confusion as to what action was originally invoked, especially in circumstances where further feedback is delayed. :)
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Luke Benstead <[email protected]> wrote: > This is not just isolated to the installer. It would be nice if every > button press system wide showed some kind of indication that the click was > received. What might be nice is if the button text disappeared and a little > circular progress indicator showed for a second or two before being replaced > back with the button text again (a cross fade to the spinner, and back to > text would look pretty cool actually). > > Luke. > > On 9 September 2010 12:28, Frederik Nnaji <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> after hesitating for quite some time now, i installed Maverick on my >> production machines, and it is running like a charm! >> Thanks to the everybody @ Canonical for all the great work, thanks to the >> entire community for making this possible in the first place ;) >> >> Reliability: >> As in the physical universe, not all interaction objects are realiable. >> Yet, when a process fails to start, i know immediately that something is >> wrong. >> The most unlikely thing to happen is that i press a button or switch, only >> to be left guessing for a quarter of a minute, whether anything has been >> invoked, activated or started by my action. >> >> >> http://lh6.ggpht.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TH7Lkl4Jd-I/AAAAAAAAByc/ttFY5lOV3cA/ubuntu-10.10-screenshot.png >> and >> >> http://lh4.ggpht.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TH7Lk9DqKYI/AAAAAAAAByk/w27hJZiRIII/ubuntu-10.10-installer2.png >> show dialogs containing "Forward" buttons in the installation dialog, >> which show no feedback upon click. >> >> The Forward button should react in realtime when clicked: at the moment >> there is no reaction for about 10-20 seconds. >> This is insufficient, e.g. because: >> * user doesn't know if the button was clicked or not >> * user doesn't know if the click started anything or not >> * user might click again, to make sure (confirming Forward on the next >> page accidentally) >> * user is irritated and becomes impatient after the instant interaction >> feedback time (~ 0 - 1 sec) is over >> >> Realtime Interaction is the impression of live interaction with a system. >> This impression is a model of what we experience as physical reality, it is >> easy to model after that symbolically. >> Every interaction, input or gesture creates ripples on the surface of the >> GUI, just like a finger that touches a "surface" indents the surface or >> changes its state. >> >> The simplest way of solving the "Forward" button problem here, is to add >> another frame/state to the forward button, i.e. "pressed". >> >> thoughts? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana> >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- sfm
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