On 06/04/07, William D. Hathaway <william.hathaway at versatile.com> wrote:
> If disks that are too small (or otherwise invalid choices) can't be 
> "unselectable" can the icons for them be different at least (like a hard disk 
> image behind a "circle with a line through it") than the legal disks?  If I 
> have 10 disks, but 9 are too small to install on, it seems tedious to make 
> the user select all 10 one by one before finding the disk that it is legal to 
> install on.
>

The different icon seems like a great compromise, that way people can
still select the disk in question to find out specifically why it
can't be used.

> I'm not sure what ordering the disks are displayed in, but I'd also recommend 
> making the first usable disk be in the position that users would be most 
> likely select (the disk on the far left or top depending on how the layout 
> goes).
>

That also seems helpful.

-- 
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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