I kind of agree with Adam, hence my attempt at redesigning the UI with two trees (which might be a poor choice). You wrote about confused users before. Don't forget that new UI experiences for a user can also be confusing. When was the last time you saw a tree with disabled items? I can't ever recall seeing that.
--- Adam Judson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the benfit of disabling tree selection? > > How will this effect keyboard navigation? > > It sounds like you present some options/actions for the selected item > in a tree, why > not just disable these actions. > > e.g. you can select this item, but then all of the buttons/menus > become disabled. > > Then you could add an arbitrary attribute to the item and test for > that (and perhaps add a different decorator/css style). > > Maybe take a step back and describe the GUI behaviour you want > (provide functionality X for some subset of a tree of objects) rather > than your proposed solution (disable some of the elements in the > tree). > > Adam > > > On 02/02/06, HJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eric H. Jung wrote: > > > Why not hide the unrelated windows--what is wrong with that? > > > > Well, there are two reasons. The first one is that people get > confused > > when we hide windows, and the second is that the selected tree row > jumps > > up/down (depending on the z index) when other window are > opened/closed. > > > > > If you must show them and can't disable them, how about breaking > the UI > > > into two trees, one for "related windows" and another for > "unrelated > > > windows"? You can disable the entire "unrelated windows" tree. > > > > I think that this approach will also confuse people. There simply > has > > to be a better/working way to get my idea going. > > > > Thanks, > > /HJ > > _______________________________________________ > > Project_owners mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > > > _______________________________________________ > Project_owners mailing list > [email protected] > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
