Comments on: Error/Warning UI in Eog-Ng

By: ken

ken — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Nice!

The one part I’m not a fan of is the Cancel button. Cancel usually means “don’t do this operation”, or “stop this thing that’s running now”. I’m not sure exactly what it means in this context.

Also, would I hit alt-C-A to activate it? I’ve never seen a button with 2 underlined letters. :-)

By: Steven Garrity

Steven Garrity — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

What does the “Cancel” button do in this case?

I think we need to look at standardizing this in-app notification area stuff in the HIG. Gaim is doing something similar in 2.x as well.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I think users always love Dev news, especially when they include pictures of the apps and when they ask for advice, it brings a certain level of humanism to software development. Thanks for taking your time to share with us what you’ve been working on. :)

By: Jeff Schroeder

Jeff Schroeder — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This looks great, but as stated by other readers, there is no reason to have a cancel button.

“Can not load foo…” is a statement and not a pending operation. As such, there is nothing to Cancel. You might add a “More information” button that gives any debug output or something like that.

Nice work.

By: MDK

MDK — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Nice nice… I hate errors displayed with modal dialogs.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

There is SO much wasted space in there. Make the yellow part the whole image widget. (take up all the window size), and center the the text.

I dont know what the cancel button is for, it seems stupid.

The yellow there is excellent, to catch users’ attention, but make it take up the whole screen.

By: Thiago

Thiago — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hey,

The Cancel button looks odd. Also, this yellow area does not work correctly on Gtk in some cases. Try to resize the window making it smaller, something like 640×480 and put a larger message on it. The window would resize or the message would ellipsize (if the property is set) but the line won’t break without resizing the window.

By: ken

ken — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

To be clear, while I don’t like the word “Cancel” here, I do agree that it’s useful to have an acknowledgment button here. (”Cancel” isn’t horrible by itself, but it already means something else in GUIs.) Ideally, it should be a 1-word synonym for “ok, that’s nice, now please make this yellow box go away” :-).

That is, unfortunately, not in my thesaurus, but I have faith that you will come up with the correct word by the time this is released!

By: Nil Gradisnik

Nil Gradisnik — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Love the progress of eog and the visual feedback to users.
The new Error/Warning UI looks great.
Close or Hide button instead of Cancel maybe ?

By: guest

guest — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The current error messages in gedit and now eog are nice but the visual presentation doesn’t really fit.

I agree with Marc for the size of the message. Maybe the way firefox displays error message can be used for inspiration?

Anyway, thank you for the latest great improvements on eog. I very much like them.