Re: [Gimp-developer] Remove "you can drop dockable dialogs here" label?

[Gez <listas ohweb com ar>]

El vie, 14-02-2014 a las 19:03 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine escribió:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Gez wrote:
>
> > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/255376/gimp/GIMP-drop-icon.png
>
> In general, I like the idea, but there's an obvious usability problem
> here: this icon looks like a button, and the first thing one group of
> people will try to do is to click it. Needless to say, they will fail.
> Another group  of people will decide that this is an inactive button
> and that they should do something to activate it, which is, again,
> unapplicable to this case.

Hmm, that's a very good point.
What about this?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/255376/gimp/GIMP-drop-icon_b.png


> My educated guess is that only a fraction of users will read the
> tooltip and act accordingly. I'd love to be proven wrong, though :)

Yes, unfortunately I think you're right.
That's why I included in this mockup one target on the right side of the
window.
The flashing edges are quite discoverable when you already have a dock
there, but there is no visual hint in the empty window that you can
actually drop the dialogs there.

Gez.