Re: Blogpost: "Refresh in reactive displays"

["Hugo Heden" <liam321 123mail org>]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:31:27 -0400, "Dan Williams" <dcbw redhat com>
said:
> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:59 +0200, Hugo Heden wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > For those who haven't seen it, there is a blog-post by Bryan Clark
> > regarding UI principles, arguing against having a Refresh-button in the
> > NetworkManager-applet menu. (Not sure that was ever the intention?)
> 
> Well, there were requests for a manual "refresh" button somewhere, and
> Bryan's argument is that having one anywhere is wrong.  Again, I think
> there are simply bugs in NetworkManager and the applet that would
> improve the experience for users.
> 

I realize you probably already know this, Dan, since you people
apparently ride the bus together (in the real non-virtual world? I find
this utterly weird since to me you were two random guys on the internet
:-) ). 

But for those who haven't seen it, Bryan Clark has posted a follow-up,
suggesting there should be an UI feedback icon for "Network is currently
scanning":

http://clarkbw.net/blog/2007/10/17/scanning-for-feedback/

Best regards

Hugo Heden


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