Re: lock down features
- From: Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>
- To: Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: lock down features
- Date: 20 Nov 2002 08:38:04 +0000
> One suggestion that might be better than the HIG's current vagueness on
> this topic is to have a tooltip on every insensitive control that
> explains why the control is insensitive. In fact this would be useful
> regardless of why the control is insensitive, but I guess it would be
> particularly easy to do for controls that are gconf-locked. (Of course
> you'd miss out on this if you've got tooltips turned off, though.)
MacOSX has a little lock icon whenever the preferences are locked down -
this to me was a pretty nice touch, although a little unobvious at first
that you were unable to lock it by clicking on it and entering in a
password. How possible would this be to do?
See ya,
Glynn :)
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