Hi,
please find a first draft concerning the use of messages in webYaST
at: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Web/Docu/Style_Guide#Messages
The basic idea is to distinguish between questions and error messages:
questions will be presented as pop ups and error messages within the
dialog (between header and content)
Furhtermore the idea is to simplify things for developers and users
and to skip any destinction between error serverities:
there will be just one way to display errors. This doesn`t make it
necessary any more to gamble whether a possible error is a warning or
a critial one.
This is also a concept which was already introduced by Apple.
Informative messages should be displayed in the place where the user
has his focus (e.g. a loading icon in the row where the information
is to be displayed and not on the top of the content because that
would mean that the content is moved down everytime a simple loading
process happens).
Similar case is how to deal deal with questions:
there a distinction between informative and warning type can be
skippes as well because the user is interrupted in the workflow in
any case and by reducing the amount of information in the question
dialog, the user is supported to focus
on the question text.
What do you think about that concept?
Cu,
Martin
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