Re: [Usability] Can the GNOME desktop survive an encounter with my parents?



Am Freitag, den 26.08.2005, 09:04 +0100 schrieb Ross Burton:
> On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 21:21 -0400, Jason Hoover wrote:
> > I don't see the trash applet used in Fedora by default, so I'm guessing
> > this is an Ubuntu bug/Icon theme bug. Having the icon "land" where it
> > looks would probably be annoying to someone expecting it to 'land' where
> > his mouse is (especially on a tablet screen). Visual feedback may be a
> > good idea, but I'm not sure what exactly the trash should do to indicate
> > it's gonna get dropped there.
> 
> I'm about to file a bug that Nautilus should, if possible, drag files
> with a semi-transparent effect.

Already on the plate for a long time [1].
If you know how to deal with RGBA, please help us! I was - until now -
only able to lower the saturation and apply a bilevel transparency mask
(full transparent/not transparent). I don't know how to do this inside
GDK. Maybe we'll have to hook the cairo context and draw it with lowered
transparency or something.

> The fact that it looks like a blue box is just down to the icon.  It
> looks like the trash for everyone who knows what the trash icon is...
> 
> > > 6. Wants to change the Font. Goes to System->User Settings->Fonts,
> > > sees the 4 boxes (does not recognize them as buttons) with "Sans" in
> > > them, clicks the "Details" button, "Go to Font folder", browses the
> > > fonts, finds one he likes, tries to drag it to the "boxes" without
> > > success.
> 
> It would use useful if those buttons accepted drags from font files,

Introducing a new drag target for founds sounds more viable.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40914

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Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>

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