Re: Icon in window title
Re: Icon in window title
- Subject: Re: Icon in window title
- From: Forest Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:06:45 -0700
At 7:49 PM +0200 5/24/01, Uli Zappe wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2001 um 19:32 schrieb Forest Hill:
That would be up to the creativity of the developer
Aaargghh! There's nothing worse than "creativity" in a GUI context
where *conistency* is what it's all about. "Creative" GUIs are just
awful.
For example, say I work on an application which manages a list of
users. This app is capable of exporting a subset of these users to a
file when asked. Let's say you drag a user, either directly from a
list, or by that user's proxy icon, to the finder. It's perfectly
acceptable behavior (and expected, according to some) for the app to
use the drag action to select which users to export and where to
export them to.
That is, the object doesn't have a file representation until the drag
has been completed. Even then, the file is a snapshot of the object,
and they aren't really linked thereafter, so it would be wrong to
give the object representation in the app the the file's icon (or
path, for that matter.)
I'm not saying that developers should be creative in changing the
commonly accepted (or rigidly defined) way of doing things, but there
any many things about most apps which are not, and can not, be
considered when coming up with a HIG for an OS. As far as I'm
concerned, that's one reason that it's very important to have
competent HI people involved with the design of a product.
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Forest Hill
Apple Computer, Inc.
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