gg wrote: > ... much erudition elided... > 10s may help but IMHO this method of notification is far too unobtrusive. > > The STATUS bar should be for relaying status information. Information > that relates to the state of the program. It is used effectively to > prompt awareness of hot key combinations etc. This is accessory > information that the user may check for or that my just be helpful. > > The text is small and on the periphery of vision when the focus of > attention is on the centre of the screen. > > It is NOT an effective way of displaying important error messages that > NEED to be seen. > It's right in line with good UI practice. This message is not status, it's an error report and should be displayed in a way such that the user HAS to deal with it before moving on. What they asked for didn't happen and they must know. A modal dialog is an example of how to deal with this, a disappearing status message is not. Patrick _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
