2010/12/17 Peter Nermander <peter at nermander.se> > > (and i'm not talking about the real tooltips you're getting when hovering > a button: those ones are very useful: i asked for one, i get it. i'm talking > about tooltips, alert boxes, notifications and other artifacts that popup > from nothing without me having asked for them.) > > But wasn't that what was suggested? A regular tooltip when you hover a > disabled (greyed out) menu item? In the example of disabled Paste-item > it could simply state "Locked layer". It won't appear unless you hover > the disabled item. I can't see how that could be intrusive? >
Yes, that was my idea from the very beginning. > > > and i repeat myself: i'm for a notification area where the user gets the > notifications. and he knows that if there is a notification it will be > there. and he can browse through a few past notifications. and can get more > information about specific notifications. even links to the online doc. > > Well, you might have an idea there, but no other programs use that as > far as I know. Wouldn't it be better to do like other programs do? We > are already seeing a lot of users complain that Scribus does things > different. > > /Peter > > I think beginnings with Scribus would be much more easier if new users could find information where they expect it to be from similar experiences. The worst memory I have (decades ago): WordPerfect didn't work like any other wordprocessor, and I couldn't find the way to exit the program; the F1 key did something completely different than bringing a help screen ... I had to reboot the computer to exit the damn thing! Marie-No?lle -- Une galerie photos, un blog ... pourquoi pas ? Webmaster en herbe<http://www.webmaster-en-herbe.net/> Parcourez les C?vennes ? ma fa?on : C?vennes Plurielles<http://www.cevennes-plurielles.com> Et toutes mes autres publications ? partir de ma page d'accueil g?n?rale<http://www.marie-noelle-augendre.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20101217/2e0eab83/attachment.htm>
