On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:38 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> Pat Suwalski wrote:
> > Thomas Wood wrote:
> >> I was thinking of doing some work on the theme manager UI for 2.16. 
> >> Should
> >> the theme manager be switched to explicit apply too? It often takes more
> >> than a second to apply a theme.
> >
> > The best way to see what your desktop will look like is to click one 
> > of the themes and see what your desktop looks like!
> >
> > There's a handy "revert" button, and it should be quite discoverable 
> > to click back on the theme that was previously selected.
> >
> > Is this not the case?
> This isn't really the issue. The problem is that the apply procedure 
> takes more than a second to complete, thus violating the previously 
> mentioned section of the HIG about instant apply.

This is true, although it doesn't usually take more than a second to
visibly do /something/, which is perhaps what the HIG should really say.

Cheeri,
Calum.


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