Re: Icon prelighting signals activation affordance incorrectly

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 10:40, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> That unfortunately shows off another issue, namely that you have to click 
> on a non-transparent part of an icon to select it. Without prelighting 
> that can be hard. Arguably that should be changed though.

The prelight is an useful way of discovering whether Nautilus is alive
or not :-) 

But seriously, is this a big usability problem? I mean, single vs double
click seems to cause confusion for newbies anyway, but is it because of
the prelight or just in general?

Tuomas

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