Re: [Usability] tabbed ui state indicators

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi,

by reading the last replies to the bugid I've just posted I came across recent 
additions to
  http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/controls-notebooks.html
and
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72101
;) Means http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132173 can be done now.
Anyway more specific guidlines (like stock icons for the state) would be good.

Stefan

> hi,
>
> just subscribed to this list and searched the archive. I'd like to bring 
> a topic into discussion which I have for long on my list. In the past 
> (gnome-1.x) I was using multi-gnome-terminal a lot. And one feature of 
> it I liked a lot was that it was coloring the label on the notebook tabs 
> to indicate the state of the document (terminal) in it. States where : 
> running command and new output. There is a request for this feature for 
> the gnome-terminal in 2.x:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132173
>
> I belive this is easy to implement. What we might need is some 
> suggestions in the Gnome HIG how to handle it.
>
> My first suggestion is to use spinning arrows to indicate that the 
> document that the tab stands for is not idle, thus is saving or is 
> beeing processed. The progress (if known) + a desription of the action 
> can be put into the tooltip for the tab.
>
> As a second suggestion we could use icon-overlays to indicate the change 
> state (adding a yellow up-side-down triangle with an '!' to indicate new 
> output or other changes).
>
> Any comments. Should we discuss this on the wiki?
>
> Ciao
>   Stefan
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