Re: [Usability] Re: Standardizing Find and Replace windows

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

GNOME 2.3 should have some kind of "visual bell" system. I think it's
actually implemented for metacity. So I guess you can give a
notification and leave it up to the user's system to say whether it'll
be a beep or a flashing title bar or something else.

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 23:45, Dan Zlotnikov wrote:
> We really should manufacture profiles for our users...
> 
> Personally, I find audio notification disturbing and pointless. Especially
> if the sound associated with the notification is just a single tone. There
> are too many things on my computer that go "beep" on occasion, frequently
> without any visual indication. On the other hand, and this is an
> accessibility point, we need that alternative to be present in some form.
> 
> I don't object to the idea of the audio bell, merely request it not be the
> standard "beep." And yes, that will create problems in systems that don't
> have an audio card. Which might mean a speedy demise to the audio idea,
> who knows?
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Dan Zlotnikov wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 17:31:30 -0400 (EDT)
> > > From: Dan Zlotnikov <dzlotnik perpugilliam csclub uwaterloo ca>
> > > Reply-To: dzlotnik uwaterloo ca
> > > To: Usability gnome org
> > > Subject: Re: [Usability] Re: Standardizing Find and Replace windows
> > >
> > > Alan, I was thinking more in the find dialogue itself, perhaps immediately
> > > underneath the text box (but that can be adjusted, since outputting text
> > > there is definitely not in accordance with the HIG)
> >
> > I thought you meant having a something like a status bar within the
> > dialog.
> >
> > The (audio or) visual bell actually seems to me like the best way to
> > indicate the wrap around.
> >
> > - Alan
> >
> 
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