IMO the interface should not be cluttered with unnecessary information, so my question is: What information is desired? Is it relevant to show the connection status all the time or perhaps only when the user is "asking"?
For example, even a permanent color dot draws attention. One that switches colors even more so. Traffic lights are for looking actively at, but I our case here is not (I assume). If (if!) it is not desired to see the activity all the time, maybe it could show when you hover some place? ...or, if it affects when you should click Save, maybe it could appear as an infopopup when hovering Save. Or, if it is only a problem if it is Offline AND during Save, then the info comes up only then. Also, I would guess that different icons but all in same size/color/weight, are less attention drawing than different color spots. I mean if you want something slightly subtler than colors. <:-) On Friday, May 22, 2015 at 12:22:57 AM UTC+2, Danielo Rodríguez wrote: > > Hello, > > I was going to post a question in TW-Dev and I just realized that I would > prefer to have the opinion of the community first. > > I have been investigating about couchdb, and I learned a lot thanks to the > couchdb adaptor. So I decided to create a pochdb adaptor for tiddliwiki. > > Basically this means: Having an offline database locally (inside the > browser) that syncs to an online database whenever you have internet > connection. > > My question is: How the sync state should be notificated? I mean, you lost > internet connection, then you lost sync to the server, Internet comes back, > sync starts again. > > Possible states are: > > - Connected and synced > - Connected but syncing > - Offline > > My first idea was to use the state color of the "save button". Leaving it > red when you're offline, but this can be confusing, because you will not > know if the changes have been saved locally. I think the best approach is > to notify with an alert when you lost sync. I choose alert because they > last until you remove them, so there is no chance to not be aware of it. > Then, when connection comes back, that alert can be removed automatically. > Any other notification just use a notification (toast) > > What do you think? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/58c4fb25-5b20-4bdc-9c5a-990843b6cf4b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
