Hover highlight effect inconsistency with GNOME applets.
Hi. I'm a long time GNOME user (since Hoary Hedgehog) and just today, maybe because of the new FUSA applet and watching a newbie struggle with it, something ocurred to me. Why is it that only some of the applets are highlighted when you hover your mouse cursor over them and some are not? Some examples: - Applications/Places/System buttons are not highlighted, but they don't look like something obviously clickable at all. - The new FUSA applet suggests with its tiny red power off icon that it might be clickable, but the entire area of the applet is not obviously clickable (leading my fellow newbie to try and click that little red icon). - The brightness applet sun icon isn't highlighted. It displays a drop-down menu when clicked, so exactly the same behavior as time and date applet (which is highlighted). - The trash applet isn't highlighted. On the other hand, these are highlighted (and for good reason): All manually added icons (activators). Looks good, not necessary, but looks good. Lock screen applet icon. Looks good, not necessary, but looks good. The time and date applet is highlighted, suggesting that it is clickable and most importantly, that the whole area is clickable (including the integrated weather report). Good. Discoverable. The workspaces switcher applet highlights the workspaces as you hover your cursor over them, making it easier to understand what are they all about. Good. The Show desktop button/applet is highlighted. It looks like a button, so it's obviously clickable, so it it may not even be necessary to highlight it, but it doesn't distract. Good. I was trying to make sense of it all, eg.: 1) If it's an applet with an icon - highlight it Inconsistent - trash applet, brightness applet and probably more 2) If it's an applet without an icon or simply non-obviously-clickable - highlight it Inconsistent - most of them (apart from time and date applet and workspace switcher applet) I wouldn't notice this inconsistency, but just try to move your mouse from the time and date applet over to the FUSA applet and see what I'm talking about. Tooltips help to some degree, but it's just a band-aid for the inconsistency. Any thoughts, suggestions, explanations? Regards, Tomasz Dominikowski -- Tomasz Dominikowski http://launchpad.net/~dominikowski Brian, let us pray. Dear Lord... stay out of our way! -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Hover highlight effect inconsistency with GNOME applets.
Tomasz Dominikowski wrote: Any thoughts, suggestions, explanations? Sounds quite good. I like when we aim for more consistency :) Perhaps this should be proposed upstream to be included in the HIG though. Cheers, Emilio -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Hover highlight effect inconsistency with GNOME applets.
to, 2008-12-11 kello 15:22 +0100, Tomasz Dominikowski kirjoitti: Any thoughts, suggestions, explanations? I haven't noticed this before, but you are right: the highlight behaviour is inconsistent. At the moment I'd suggest we try to highlight everything that is clickable in the panels. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Hover highlight effect inconsistency with GNOME applets.
2008/12/11 Otto Kekäläinen o...@sange.fi to, 2008-12-11 kello 15:22 +0100, Tomasz Dominikowski kirjoitti: Any thoughts, suggestions, explanations? I haven't noticed this before, but you are right: the highlight behaviour is inconsistent. At the moment I'd suggest we try to highlight everything that is clickable in the panels. I have noticed this, but I haven't given it a second thought. I think I may have found a commonality; the applets that has an immediate effect when clicked lights up on hover, while those that display a menu, slider, etc, does not. This is not true for all applets, however. The System Monitor applet, for instance, does not work this way, though a single click will open the System Monitor. If it isn't designed that way, I think maybe it should; it makes sense to warn about clicks that has an immediate action. That way, the menuline, volum control, power manager and FUSA should not light up, since they'll only display sliders or menus. Launchers, window switchers, show desktop, etc should. Following this philosophy, I think the clock applet shouldn't light up, since it doesn't really perform any operations, only displays the calendar. The system monitor applet, however, should light up. My two cents; Jo-Erlend Schinstad -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
