From kde-usability Mon Aug 29 13:23:31 2005 From: Zak Jensen Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:23:31 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Fwd: Konqueror informative location bar Message-Id: <21bb44f305082906232ce4936a () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=112532184911093 another issue may be people who are colorblind. They might not see the change in color. On 8/26/05, Joerg Hoh wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:58:17PM -0400, Sean Lynch wrote: > > Whenever I have a typo, cut and paste the wrong information, or otherwise > > mess up what should be typed into the Location bar, Konqueror supplies the > > user with a fairly uninformative popup (see leftside of link). > > > > A proposal I suggest is to supply the user with some feedback as to the error > > without interrupting them to actually fix the error. The suggestion (right > > side of link) is instead of having a popup window, konqueror will color > > the background of the location bar, put the right-aligned descriptive message > > that is slightly grayed and italicized (just like how the webpage titles are > > done on the dropdown and in firefox) and change the icon to the right from a > > folder to a warning sign (how do you know what you tried to type is infact a > > folder anyways, might be a URL, etc). > > I agree to this suggestion since the users attention is already on the > location bar and the user will surely notice the color change. > > And of course the cursor should stay in the location bar, so you can easily > fix the typo without using the mouse and click on the location bar again. > > Jörg > > -- > Was denen einen ihr Watergate, ist den anderen ihr Firstgate. > - Thomas Bliessner, > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDD6pg6xdMID018FIRAv8kAJ9VdU5vZOaex+aN/6YYEDemyHDpTQCfbZ3A > XOUGeneDrkZ0glLWc/Lek/Y= > =/SAx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > kde-usability mailing list > kde-usability@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability > > > _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability