[Sugar-devel] Settings Window Search

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Is more consistent with other standard widgets (buttons, checkboxes)
when are disabled too.

Gonzalo

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:50 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> The purpose of an insensitive icon is that it cannot be activated.  It
> becomes an affordance; a temporary environment in which the user can
> be certain it won't activate as the mouse passes slowly over it.
>
> Think of users with a cognitive or motor skill disability.  These
> icons will activate a palette if the cursor dwells for only a short
> time, and while that palette is visible no shortcuts respond.
>
> I'm inclined to go the other way; change the Home View so that faded
> icons cannot be selected or interacted with.
>
> Then it would be more consistent with Journal and List View where
> items not in the result set vanish during a search.
>
> For consistency, two other places can also be changed;
>
> - Neighbourhood View,
>
> - Friends View.
>
> I've verified this in Neighbourhood View.  Not having any friends, I
> can't be sure of how Friends View works.  ;-)
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>



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Gonzalo Odiard

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