Re: [Usability]Re: An alternative proposal for instant-apply vs. non-instant-apply

[Kenny Graunke <kenny whitecape org>]

<quote who="Michael Rogers">

> Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> > I've been thinking about this tonight and I came up with "audiovisual
> > feedback". Already GTK widgets can "light up" when the mouse pointer is
> > over them. My idea is to distinguish instant-apply from delayed-apply by
> > highlighting the entire widget that was activated, and let the selection
> > gradually fade away.
> 
> Another idea based on the same principle but kind of reversed:
> 
> In all dialogs, changes that have not yet been applied should be
> highlighted. (The widget should remain in the 'changed'/'dirty' state
> until the changes are applied.) This would make the distinction between
> instant-apply and explicit-apply dialogs obvious, and would provide
> visual feedback for Apply and Reset/Revert. It would also make it
> possible to use instant-apply dialogs for changes that might take a
> couple of seconds to apply: the changes would be highlighted until they
> had been applied. In a notebook widget, the tabs of 'dirty' pages should
> be highlighted so that the user can easily see which pages will be
> affected when the Apply or OK button is pressed.

I like the sound of this - it's definately something worth looking into. If
done correctly, this could help considerably.

> Michael

--Kenny