[Usability]Re: Comments on dialog proposal

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Seth Nickell wrote:

> For example....why preview the background image in a tiny thumbnail in
> the background capplet when you can just change the damn background
> itself? If the user doesn't like the change they can press undo, or just
> change to another image.

Because it takes seconds to change the actual background, and tenths of
a second to update the preview?  Because I can see the whole background
in the preview, but I can't see most of my actual background because it
has windows all over it?

Cheeri,
Calum.

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