On Tue, 28 May 2002, Adam McDaniel wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:27:03PM -0700, Akkana wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I don't see any problem with choosing a different icon. The only
> problem then would be picking one specific for 'selected' entries.
>
> As for highlighting the whole row, I would stay against that simply
> becuase of the jogdial support. Moving up/down highlights the whole
> row (except for the icon), and pushing in on the dial selects the
> entry for viewing. Having the entire row highlighted would probably
> be more confusing from there.
What about if all the characters are inverted as Akkana suggests,
and moving the jogdial changes both the icon and the text inversion
together? It seems that both are ways to select documents, so why would a
user need to select two at once?
--Anthony
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