[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] New share button style

[Aleksey Lim]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:09:24AM -0400, Frederick Grose wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org>wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > While sugarizing GCompris, I've implemented new ShareButton style in
> > polyol[1] (while changing share status it pulsing by setting alpha
> > channel). I think it would be not bad to use the same style for all
> > combobox like tool buttons.
> >
> > [1] http://people.sugarlabs.org/~alsroot/tmp/share-menu.ogv
> 
> 
> This enlivens the interface, and should only be a compliment to the more
> standard 'busy' cursor because the gray-scale tone changes of the pulsing
> can be missed in suboptimal viewing conditions.
> 
> There are several situations where a busy cursor is needed. Among them are
> these:
> 
> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/405
> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/851 or http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3617

Not trying to argue but for me busy cursor means that the whole application
is in suspended (more or less) state, but in case of share button,
activity could be used as usual.

There is also another reason against setting cursor. ShareButton is only low
level widget which is not aware of high level use cases where global setting
like changing cursor is unaccessible (or sounds overkill).

What about just making ShareButton inactive while changing status?

-- 
Aleksey