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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Konqueror informative location bar
From:       Zak Jensen <coolguyzak () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-08-29 13:23:31
Message-ID: 21bb44f305082906232ce4936a () mail ! gmail ! com
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another issue may be people who are colorblind. They might not see the
change in color.

On 8/26/05, Joerg Hoh <joerg@joerghoh.de> 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
> 
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