On 5/18/05, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 18 May 2005, Luis Villa wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:47:40 -0400 > > From: Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Usability] online/offline design > > > > Hey, all- > > > > I was wondering if anyone had given thought to designing a standard > > 'you're not online, so action X could not be completed [configure > > network][dismiss][cry in shame]' dialog for if/when apps start to poke > > networkmanger for that information? Or if such a thing would be > > appropriate? > > Ah welcome laptop user! > > Gets real annoying fast when your Operating System makes all those > assumptions about having a network connection doesn't it? As more > developers get laptops and other types of portable devices and are torn > away from their always on connectivity I hope they will be as observant as > you have been. > > There are plenty of things I'd like to have standard dialogs for and this > seems like another appropriate choice. However in the long run I think it > would be more important though to try and make things generally less > unpleasant for offline users in general. (The one that gets me most often > is menu items that look just like other menu items but go and open up a > web browser and try and connect to a website.)
I was, uh, trying to be a bit less grand in scope :) Obviously it would be nice to catch some of these things and think through them, but I'm more concerned with the concrete-and-fixable-RIGHT-NOW issue, which is 'we have a way to tell if a machine is online/offline, and we have many apps which should fail gracefully if they are offline. What should they say when they fail?' So, uh, any suggestions? :) Luis _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
