On 16 Sep 2010, at 08:41, Allan Caeg wrote: > Here are mockups of how they could appear: > http://www.stephenhorlander.com/images/tab-indicators/pulsing-tab.png , > http://www.stephenhorlander.com/images/tab-indicators/pulsing-app-tab.png , > http://www.stephenhorlander.com/images/tab-indicators/textured-tab.png > > I'm not aware of any GTK+ app that has tab glow states due to notifications.
We don't use animation anywhere AFAIK, but we do of course do more visually primitive things like indicating that a new IM has arrived by changing the tab text colour (Pidgin, xchat), or that a document has changes that need saving (usually indicated by appending/prepending an asterisk to the tab text). > Whether they already exist or not, what do you think should be the > convention for tab glow states? Let's come up with something that we can put > on the UI Pattern Library so Firefox can follow our convention for this and > other GTK+ apps can also take advantage of it. Indeed, tabs are certainly something I can see us having quite a few patterns for. This is an area Allan Day did quite a bit of research into a year or two back ago: <http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/TabImplementation> In fact there's been a bug open for a long time about standardising tab and indicator usage in GNOME, and it's even already marked with the 'uipattern' keyword :) Would certainly be great to see some concrete action on it if anybody wants to take it on: <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72101> Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
