Hi, I just had a bug report against the Talking Moose where someone was confused by the behavior of the "Hide Moose" menu item that the application name menu...
If you aren't doing anything that is considered file management, do you really need a File menu? The close command could be moved to the window menu or you...
If you don't have a File menu, you will get email every day for the rest of your life from users asking you why you don't have a standard Macintosh UI. "What...
... I wonder how much mail Apple gets over System Prefs ;) ... Of course, I see your point, but the greater number of applications which break with tradition...
This is a fun question. I think it's far from obvious what the right answer is, but of course I have an opinion :) ... This issue was discussed years and years...
... Well, the Moose is odd in a lot of ways already, and is not a typical app by nature. I'd actually prefer to keep some parts like in all other Mac apps,...
... You don't need a "File" or File-like menu. The one window in Moose is a Prefs/Settings window which is opened through both a Preferences command in the...
... Great idea! I could temporarily hide the settings window when I show the app and the Moose and the app's been hidden. Good thinking! ... That'd be...
... Well, if all people are like me (which, admittedly, they aren't - but play along, will ya?) they'd get no mail at all. Considering admins are probably the...
... Ooooo! Genius! That's the word I was searching for at the start of this thread! "Settings" makes sense while not clashing with the application name menu! ...
... Yeah, that's a risk, but it's actually one of a few new guidelines that makes sense, so I think I'll risk it. If I get lots of complaints from users I'll...
... To clarify: this may not be as bad in console, which is a power- user tool. But the Moose is a one-off, a fun thing people install for a few weeks, then...
... Whether you add a setting for hide behavior or not, you need to determine what it is the user expects to happen when she selects the Hide Moose command....
... Actually, "Options" is the menu name with historical sanctification (right back to 1984 - programs with an Options menu were *very* common in the early Mac...
Hi guys, just found this interesting article: http://ramblings.aaronballman.com/?p=608 It's contains some neat rules of thumb that help in finding out whether...
... It might be interesting but I found it nearly impossible to read on a PB 12". For someone who's writing "rules" for UI design, his document design is...
I'm working on a new UI idea that I'm calling modeless alerts, and I'd love to get some feedback on it. I see a lot of applications putting up modal alerts for...
... My initial thought was that Windows has something like that. It takes the form of "balloons" that popup over the system tray in the task bar. My second...
Both Growl and the Windows taskbar balloons are for notifications from the system or from non-frontmost applications. Modeless alerts belong to the frontmost...
... Not necessarily. The most popular client of Growl is Adium, and there it's just for notifications of new stuff that happened. ... *nods* So, what do you...
... Cases where the application wants to either notify the user of something, or ask a question, that isn't urgent and doesn't merit an application-modal or...
On 19 Mar 06, David Catmull wrote: ... are there user expectations of what happens when she enters invalid input into a textfield? will your proposed modeless...
... I could see this being useful (if done correctly). Better than just the beep. As you said earlier... similar to a tooltip. Color should be a secondary...
Jon Hull
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Mar 20, 2006 10:50 pm
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... An icon, I think. I experimented with a white-on-black appearance like the "dashboard" style in the new iApps, but I think that looks out of place (and...
... I think the positioning would easily be the most difficult part to get right. One thing I'd suggest is to try to position it in a way that doesn't obscure...
... I had thought of that too, but the risk is that it can degenerate into something like excel -- I often have sheets with the green triangle in every other...
... That's great for cases where the alert message can be conveyed with just the icon. The thing I don't quite like about the mouse-over popup is that it...
... What about one of those semi-transparent bezel windows which could move out of the way if you want to access other controls in the window. Hmmh, that would...
Hi all, First post on the list; just subscribed a couple of days ago. Brief bio: I'm Matt Gemmell, a Cocoa developer (in my free time) and web applications...
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