On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Liam R E Quin wrote: > Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:11:03 -0500 > From: Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Usability] regaining pixels blingfully > > A thought for people who like to autohide their gnome panel... > what about autohide for toolbars and/or menu bars? > > There are obvious issues I see... > (1) distracting if they unhide when you don't want them to > (2) need a visual affordance so (sighted) users can see they're there > (3) the affordance needs to be large enough to be easy to activate when > you want to. > > I remember that Netscape years ago played with click-to-hide/show > toolbars, but (1) they didn't slide back smoothly, so it was hard to > understand what was happening, and (2) it wasn't the whole toolbar area, > but individual toolbars, so it was confusing. > > Any thoughts?
Microsoft have been doing something like this in some of their products such as Windows Media Player and I think some of the software in Vista. This means (in theory at least) the default views of a program are much simpler and less confusing for average users and the more advance functionality is a little more hidden away. I just find it annoying but maybe that's just me. -- Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhorkan http://alanhorkan.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
