On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 08:29:13AM +0200, Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz wrote: > 2011/8/18 Andrew Poelstra <as...@sfu.ca>: > > > Kai (and others), what do you think of this mockup?: > > > > http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/mockup.png > > Looks good. It resembles GtkTreeView and that raises a question - will > it still be possible to toggle visibility without changing the active > layer (moving the selection)? I also like the stronger visual > indication of currently active layer. >
You're very astute ;). It looks like you can't toggle visibility without selecting a new layer. But there are two ways around this: 1. If we use Kai-Martin's idea of double-clicking for visibility, this would not be a surprise to the user. 2. Whenever you hide a layer, the selector would jump to the previously-selected layer. I haven't tried it yet, but I think that from a user's perspective that would make the visibility buttons seem independent of list selection. > To me the size of layer color indication for hidden layers is too > small - for example its hard to tell difference between power and > outline. > So I would either increase the size or skip showing color for > invisible layers at all. > Others have suggested this too. See http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/mockup2.png > I assume graying out the last 4 layers has some meaning - they're not > selectable - but that's not immediately clear by looking at the > widget. > That is what I meant. Can you think of how to make this clear, while still allowing the user to toggle visibility? IMHO it would be obvious what the graying-out meant after the first time the user tried selecting them. -- Andrew Poelstra Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user