Re: [Usability] Theme Instant Apply

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> On May 2, 2006, at 3:29 AM, Sven Jaborek wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 30.04.2006, 15:42 +0100 schrieb Thomas Wood:
> > > Could anyone give me some advice on bug 149323 (HIG issues with Theme
> > > Preferences). The issue is that the theme manager often takes longer
> > > than one second to apply a theme, so therefore it should not be 
> > > instant apply. Would it be acceptable to most people to change the 
> > > theme manager to explicit apply?
>
> That something takes longer than one second to put into effect is not 
> a good reason to make it explicit-apply. (If it was, mail clients 
> wouldn't have offline modes.)
>
> Instead, I suggest: Reserve room for a small indeterminate progress 
> indicator (a.k.a. a throbber) and a label directly underneath the 
> list. Then whenever a theme has been selected for at least half a 
> second but hasn't finished applying yet, show the progress indicator 
> and label:
>
>     |_______________________________________|V|
>
>     @ Applying “Ocean Blue”...
The problem is, it's not technically possible to tell when the theme has 
finished applying.

-Thomas