On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 01:34:59AM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote: > Why? How does the user know, without reading the docs, that the success > progress bar never needs to get across the yellow section at the end?
Because we will explain it to them in one way or another - most likely by having a numeric % complete indicator - or with our choice of coloring. That is the challenge of user-interface design. The user will quickly learn how to interpret the diagram. And trust me, it would be much easier for a newbie to interpret this form of representation than Bombe's design (not to criticize it - it is great for experts, but not newbies). Anyway, I am not dead-set against two progress bars, I just think that we shouldn't use two if one will do the job. In newbie UI design, less is more. Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021219/a99f48b1/attachment.pgp>
