Re: Icons during dragging (should have text part IMHO)

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 10:03 -0700, Alan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 07:04:24PM +0200, Lars Strojny wrote:
> > On 20 Apr 2004 11:12:46 +0200
> > Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 09:13, Ralph Aichinger wrote:
> > > 
> > > > One thing is the "feel" of dragging icons, this is maybe my
> > > > largest"problem" with Nautilus now.
> > 
> > Maybe we can do it with an simple graphical trick: While copying, the
> > new file is first greyed and gets coloured more and more. And if it is
> > finished, it will be full-coloured. While dragging, both icons change
> > the source file gets less coloured, and the destination file gets more
> > coloured. After finishing, the new file will also be fully coloured.
> 
> Great idea Lars.  Much better (I think) than my thinking of a small
> progress bar superimposed over the icon of the copying file.  Wish I had
> the skillz to implement something like this.  
> 
> This actually goes nicely along with the paper written a couple of years 
> back about color used in feedback from apps (ie: a download icon would
> turn red when stalled or at low speed, green at higher speeds).

Somebody actually wrote a paper advocating alienating 20% of your users?

--
Shaun