Hello all, I have just installed Gnome 2.10 and have consciously observed what works and what seems to be odd. While watching it occured to me that Gnome seems to lack a consistent way of highlighting "new items"; to clarify what I mean, I'll illustrate by two szenarios: a) Henry works on a new latex document in a folder with lots of images which are part of the document. Processing the document produces a lot of similar files with different suffixes. He wants to see only the produced dvi or pdf file, but it takes more time as expected, because he doesn't immediately see them in nautilus (remember the many files there). Highlighting the new items in some way (bold fonts?) would have guided his eye easily. Reordering would help also, but he may not like that for some reason. (rox-filer implements this kind of highlighting and it seems to be useful) Automatically attaching emblems would do the trick as well. b) Susan has installed a new aplication with synaptic. She goes to the Applications menu to start it, but is unsure where to look for it. Furthermore, the menu items label is not equal to the package name. Highlighted menu items with new entries (temporarily) would have helped her to see where the new app is accessible now. Highlighting of new item is a long established practise in mail and RSS readers. I think the concept would be useful elsewhere on the desktop. Is there some consensus about this topic? I would vote for bold fonts to highlight things, but a emblem/attrubive way could be nice as well. Greetings, * andré -- Andre Schaefer <schaefer is informatik uni-duisburg de>
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