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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Grey out scrollbar button when border reached?
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-08-28 22:11:59
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On Wednesday 28 August 2002 10:18, Matt Bonyak wrote:

> if not reflecting it will have no 
> detrimental effect on the user's experience, then it should be a candidate 
> for exemption.

i've heard this particular "complaint" a few times now ... it is evidently 
having a detriment on at least some of the uesr's experiences.

> more buttons change colour all the time will strike many as annoying, and
> confuse others. 

i'd like to see the evidence that it would confuse people.

does it bother you when toolbar buttons that aren't available "grey out" when 
the action they represent isn't available? this seems to be exactly the same 
thing: the button's action is no longer available.

whenever possible one should be able to visually acertain the state of a given 
part of the UI. 

i think you are blowing the amount of "visual noise" this will cause WAY out 
of proportion. especially since i've used systems that behaved this way 
(disabled the scroll button when it could move any further) and they worked 
quite well without a perceptable increase in visual noise.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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