Adam McDaniel writes:
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:51:25AM -0700, Akkana wrote:
> > One other problem I had with the beta: the icon for the selected icon
> > in the document list view is now very hard to tell from the unselected
> > icons, and it doesn't matter what screen depth was used. With 1.1.14,
>
> I assume you mean in the viewer itself: the only time an icon itself
> would be 'selected' or highlighted is when you go back to the doc list
> after viewing a document. I would have thought that this was merely
> cosmetic and didn't really serve much functional purpose.
On the contrary, it's very functional: you have to see the selected
icon in order to delete a document after reading it. It may not be
immediately obvious from the title (was that reg_5_27 or reg_5_28 that I
was just reading? Did I read that news story on reuters or CNN? Which
of the seven Jack London stories was that one?), and you may need to
scroll down several pages to get to it (if you've sync'ed
since the last time you were in the document view), so it helps to have
an obvious visual difference to look for.
> The icon itself was changed to match more closely with other palm
> apps, UI wise. Technically speaking, before the latest beta the icon
> was an image (which was fine, but was one extra thing to load), now
> its a character (which is better, because it's one less thing to have
That's a good reason, but it does make the app significantly harder
to use ... I haven't looked at the code that does this, but would
it be difficult to have the selected document use a different
character (even something like a * or a filled box) so it would be
obviously different from the other documents? Or, perhaps, invert
the characters in the document name as well as selecting the icon?
...Akkana
