On Tuesday 23 April 2002 10:11, Lars Clausen wrote: > > I agree with you on this. I have considered removing the !,
I've read the Interface Hall of Shame, as pointed to by Alan Horkan (http://www.iarchitect.com/shame.htm), and this is one of the things you can learn on this big page. > (...) > > whereas Gimp prepends a *. I think we should go with the *. > Since we warn before closing a modified diagram anyway, the > information is not that important. I've also seen the '*' used in Windows programs. It's a sort of "minor standard". > Now's the question: Is there some more relevant information > to put there? Currently selected tool? Number of objects > selected (after a select operation)? Something? The currently selected tool is indicated in the toolbox, so there no point in duplicating the information. I don't know if anybody is interested in the number of objects selected; I'm not. I usually use this area to report error messages that don't deserve a window popup, which is the case most of the times ("The blabla field is not a number." in red ink in the status bar has proved to be enough). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
