From: Duke <lis...@sp...> - 2004-11-19 07:16:26
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I've looked through the archive, and this seems to be a common topic. Though from what I've read my suggestion is slightly different. It'd be nice to be able to have one icon for an unmounted mount point, and one icon for a mounted mount point. For example, when unmounted, the icon is of an open disk drive (ie: cdrom tray poping out), when mounted, the icon is of a closed disk drive. This would be replacing the little green light that comes stock with rox. It would be nice to be able to do either the open/closed drive icon, the green light, or both. What does everyone think? Thanks, -- Matt. |
From: Anthony D. <or...@no...> - 2004-11-19 08:32:07
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Duke wrote: > It'd be nice to be able to have one icon for an unmounted mount point, > and one icon for a mounted mount point. For example, when unmounted, > the icon is of an open disk drive (ie: cdrom tray poping out), when > mounted, the icon is of a closed disk drive. > > This would be replacing the little green light that comes stock with > rox. It would be nice to be able to do either the open/closed drive > icon, the green light, or both. > > What does everyone think? I never paid any attention to the dots on the folder-icons for mountpoints, mainly because I had no idea what they were supposed to be. So they were always just sort of there and annoying-looking. I didn't know that green meant "mounted" though I can see the logic now; however there's nothing intuitive about blue meaning "unmounted." I think the closest thing to a standard for this type of issue is to represent "off" (unmounted) by a half-transparent or lighter-colored icon. Since most computer users already understand that kind of visual cue to mean "off" I think that would be a good choice. -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ |
From: Tristan Mc L. <the...@gm...> - 2004-11-19 08:55:12
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 03:29:37 -0500, Anthony DiSante <or...@no...> wrote: > I think the closest thing to a standard for this type of issue is to > represent "off" (unmounted) by a half-transparent or lighter-colored icon. > Since most computer users already understand that kind of visual cue to mean > "off" I think that would be a good choice. Umm... that's exactly what it is now---a transparent dot. You click it, it becomes an opaque green dot. -- Tristan |
From: Anthony D. <or...@no...> - 2004-11-19 09:03:15
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Tristan Mc Leay wrote: >>I think the closest thing to a standard for this type of issue is to >>represent "off" (unmounted) by a half-transparent or lighter-colored icon. >>Since most computer users already understand that kind of visual cue to mean >>"off" I think that would be a good choice. > > > Umm... that's exactly what it is now---a transparent dot. You click > it, it becomes an opaque green dot. Maybe I sit too far away from my monitor or something, but on my screen at 1280x1024 in list mode, they just look like blue and green dots. If I switch to icon mode and/or press my face up against the screen, I can see the the blue dot is translucent. In any event, what I meant was that the _icon_ should be translucent/faded when the device isn't mounted. Not the dot on the icon. My vote would be to get rid of the dots altogether. -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ |
From: Anthony D. <or...@no...> - 2004-11-19 09:03:28
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Tristan Mc Leay wrote: >>I think the closest thing to a standard for this type of issue is to >>represent "off" (unmounted) by a half-transparent or lighter-colored icon. >>Since most computer users already understand that kind of visual cue to mean >>"off" I think that would be a good choice. > > > Umm... that's exactly what it is now---a transparent dot. You click > it, it becomes an opaque green dot. Maybe I sit too far away from my monitor or something, but on my screen at 1280x1024 in list mode, they just look like blue and green dots. If I switch to icon mode and/or press my face up against the screen, I can see the the blue dot is translucent. In any event, what I meant was that the _icon_ should be translucent/faded when the device isn't mounted. Not the dot on the icon. My vote would be to get rid of the dots altogether. -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ |