On 3/30/07, Murray Cumming <murrayc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 22:02 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > To me, a GtkLabel is a 'label' (get it?). A label shouldn't change. It > > tells the user what a given piece of information is. > > That doesn't make much sense to me. Information can change over time, > and it's normal to show this to the user. > > If there's problem with showing changing information, at a rate that the > user can perceive, then maybe that can be dealt with as an option. I'd > be surprised if that requires an extra widget, though ABI compatibility > might convievably make that necessary. > > -- > Murray Cumming > murrayc@xxxxxxxxxxx > www.murrayc.com > www.openismus.com > > I've tried about 5 times to reword what I mean but nothing is comming to me. So I've spent about 15 minutes going through software on this computer looking through different windows trying to find an example of a label that changes to convey some interesting piece of information. I can't find any. The only example I can think of is from my bittorrent client. And its got a fairly horrible UI. Note that we're describing a situation where the data thats changing is interesting precisely because its changing. The change in the data is as interesting or more interesting than the value itself. I just thought of a situation where you might want to use a table of labels to describe some properties of an object. Obviously, for different objects, the labels would change. This isn't quite what I'm thinking of. (There are always exceptions to the rule. There's probably even a rule thats an exception to the exceptions rule which provides us with an intersting paradox...) Anyway, all I can really say in conclusion is that when I think of good UI design, I don't think table of rapidly changing values. I think fancy graphics that show important information at a glance along with some method of reading a precise value. Paul Davis _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
