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

[Aleksey Lim]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 04:47:30AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> 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?

http://people.sugarlabs.org/~alsroot/tmp/share-menu-sensitive.ogv

-- 
Aleksey