Re: [Usability] tools on the desktop

[Alexander Brausewetter <br absb de>]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 16:12 -0700, Daniel J. Wilson wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Alexander Brausewetter wrote:
> 
> > How about adding a small eject icon ⏏ to a corner of the device  
> > icon.

> I mocked up something similar several months ago:
> http://blog.wilsonet.com/archives/2005/04/15/dealing-with-ejection/

I've also done a little mockup now:
 http://f4ee.net/~alex/Device_eject_button.png

Some more details on the way I think it should work:

 * When the mouse hovers the clickable area of the icon, the icons
   responds by showing in higher gamma (that's how it is done right
   now). The eject button stays thereby unchanged.
 * When the mouse hovers the eject button, the eject button responds by
   showing itself in a darker grey, whereby the device icons itself
   looses focus (shows in normal gamma).

This is to clearly mark the functional difference of the two.

Regards,
  Alex