Re: [Usability] Sound Juicer 2 mockup comments
- From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
- To: Bryan Clark <bclark redhat com>
- Cc: Gnome Usability List <usability gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [Usability] Sound Juicer 2 mockup comments
- Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:41:27 +0000
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 18:17, Bryan Clark wrote:
> I don't want this to start into a Stop/Pause/Play discussion like what
> was had on the list before, but accessibility gets messed up by having
> the buttons change on click (from play to pause) the way to get around
> this issue is to have your play button be a toggle button. People
> understand when the play button toggles down that the way to stop/pause
> play will be to untoggle the button and the button never changes it's
> value. I've planned on putting this into HIG recommendations, but I
> need to catch up with calum for a little discussion before writing it
> in. I'd recommend this for Totem as well Bastien ;-)
Certainly sounds better than toggling labels, but without trying it I'm
not sure how natural it would feel in practise-- by making Play 'stick'
when you push it in, the metaphor suddenly becomes more like that of a
tape player (remember those?), and they always have a separate Pause
button that also sticks, and a separate Stop button that doesn't :)
Perhaps if it was a double-width button with both Play and Pause (or
Play and Stop) symbols on it, the meaning would be more apparent,
although I seem to remember we chided the CD applet a few years ago for
doing such a thing...
(Also you wouldn't normally want to sneak a toggle button into the
middle of a row of regular buttons if you could avoid it, since they
look the same but behave differently, but I guess we're running low on
options here.)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland
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