Re: [Usability] Context sensitive buttons (fwd)

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

forwarded message below

is there a better way?  can we avoid having greyed out widgets entirely in
this specific case?

I'm having difficulty coming up with anything, maybe the task could be
changed to be something more like "Revoke my key"  so that it is implicit
that nothing will happen if the key is not their own.
I guess I would have to take a much closer look at Seahorse to know if
this could be reorganised to avoid the issue entirely.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:20:41 -0500
From: jim Pharis <binbrain gmail com>
To: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
Subject: Re: [Usability] Context sensitive buttons

I am working on trying to redo the properties dialog for Seahorse
public key manager. The options such as Revoke aren't available when
its not your key. Users might not understand why they can't revoke the
key though. My suggestion was to remove the button all together from
properties window when its not your key, however, that seems to go
against another HIG.


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:22:58 +0000 (GMT), Alan Horkan
<horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:

<snip>

> What application are you working and what can we do to avoid this
> situation entirely?
>
> Sincerely
>
> Alan Horkan