On Oct 5, 2006, at 5:53 PM, John Anderson wrote:
Chandler, like many applications, displays more than one selection at the same time e.g. in the sidebar and summary view. Commands can only operate on one selection, the one that has keyboard focus. To make this distinction clear we draw selections that don't have the focus in a lighter shade of selection color than the selections that have the focus.However, I've notice that people are still confused when a command doesn't work on a selection that doesn't have the focus. I'm thinking that we need to make the difference between focused selections and non-focused selections more distinct, and was wondering what people think about drawing the non-focused selection in gray rather than a lighter shade of the selection color.
Two points, one dealing directly and the a general question.First, the only concern I would have is to make sure the gray color of the text is always in contrast to the background color or you will confuse people who have worse color vision than myself :)
Second - and this is a more general question, should the keyboard focus always be where the attention of the user is? I would think that would be required if Chandler is to be used without a mouse.
Feel free to tell me "we covered that earlier" and I will go and find the archive link as penance for not researching it myself now.
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