Re: A Proposal For The Addition Of Color-Reactiveness To The GNOME Desktop

[Bowie Poag <bjp primenet com>]

On Wed, 20 May 1998, Eric Galluzzo wrote:

> Just to add my two very small cents to the conversation.... :)
> 
> Bowie Poag wrote:
> 
> > Bingo. Lamp lights up red, user points to the lamp, Hint says "Stopped."
> > Glad to see people are getting the picture, here. :)
> 
> It might be an interesting idea to have a tooltip pop up when the user holds the
> mouse over the lamp/beacon/whatever.  The tooltip would state exactly what the
> status meant in word form (much like a tooltip for a toolbar button), just to
> further disambiguate [is that a word?] the meaning of the color transition pattern
> in that particular application.  The "status in word form" would be exactly the
> text shown in the color transition table for that color transition pattern.
> 
>      - Eric (relurking...)

Excellent idea. Anybody paying attention to this?


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