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

[Aleksey Lim]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:56:30AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:42:58AM -0400, Frederick Grose wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 04:47:30AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> > > > What about just making ShareButton inactive while changing status?
> > >
> > > http://people.sugarlabs.org/~alsroot/tmp/share-meornu-sensitive.ogv<http://people.sugarlabs.org/~alsroot/tmp/share-menu-sensitive.ogv>
> > 
> > 
> > That would work in the successful or quick failure cases, but if there was a
> > failure, and the process was stuck retrying, the static signal would not
> > provide the information about process state.
> > 
> > See
> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Sugar_Interface/Controls/Indicators
> > for
> > some other ideas on how to badge the icon with process state information.
> 
> To be honest I was planing to use alerts to notify about sharing errors
> with message like "Cannot make it Public, fallback to Offline", imho
> this kind of fails is critical enough to use alserts.

I mean, in case of ShareButton, where is a timeout and if something is wrong,
error will be raised in any case.

-- 
Aleksey