Colin D Bennett wrote: > Another method of drawing attention to a part of the display that could > be helpful is a “tunnel vision” effect: fade most of the display, > leaving a small area non-faded around the feature of interest. For > instance, when Ubuntu pops up a “Administrator Access Required” dialog > requesting password entry.
This is on of the gnome features I don't like. It mutes access to any other aspect of the desktop until the password dialog ended. However, I like to do things in parallel, let my attention hop between applications, or spontaneously start something new. This is why modal dialogs are strongly depreciated. There is a different gnome feature we might adopt. The mouse pointer can be highlighted if the control key is released while no other key is active. In this case, a series of circles starts at the mouse, grows a bit and disappears. The main difference to Peters patch is the short duration. The feature shows just for a second. So it is much less intrusive. If you don't already know, the locate mouse feature is configured in the gconf key /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/locate_pointer ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6C0B9F53 not happy with moderation of geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
