Re: [Gaim-devel] Usability issue and suggestion: remote file transfer requests

[Phil H. <ph...@ha...>]

Andy wrote:
> Okay mock ups are in order as a picture is worth a thousand words an
> all... So as not to spam the list with files go here to see a mock up of
> what I'm proposing  http://users.on.net/~c0pkf48/Mockup.png
Thanks for the image.  I just wanted to give my tuppence worth.

Displaying the message inline is fine except that it can move.  If you are sent
a message like this, you take a moment to find your mouse, move to click the
accept and the sender sends a message asking you to hurry up and it moves from
under you.

It reminds me of the old HTML scrolling banner or blink tags, great for normal
people but awful for partially sighted or slow at reading.

Its kind of interesting that I have never heard anyone complain about Firefox or
IE's file download box which works in a similar way, you can navigate to a page
and a download dialogue box opens up which is similar to Gaims practice.

Maybe what is required is like firefox's download statusbar plugin:
http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/

Just a thought.

Regards
Phil Hannent