Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ux (89 mails)

[Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 14 May 2007 05:18:08 pm Mohammad Bhuyan wrote:
> Hi Silviu,
>
> Thanks for taking time to comment.
>
> I am in complete agreement with you in that showing UI signs of an
> application being busy is really good thing. Not showing anything will
> be a deadly UI sin.
>
> But the point I am trying to make is about the manner and messages
> used in that situation.
>
> First of all, a separate window for expressing "progress" of an
> operation is seems to be going against some UI philosophy. My idea of
> poping up an window/message box is the case of:
>
> 1. A feedback form user is needed. Usually Ok, Cancel, Discard etc.
> 2. An error notification
>
> If you see carefully both of this situation would need to grab user
> attention even if the user is busy with some other app.

Absolutely, the way windows pop-up and disappear in YaST update is annoying.  
Having established that we need a progress indicator and that it needs to be 
in the same window, the question is can it be done easily?

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