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 binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
