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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 23:32, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi David, your mockup looks pretty.. becoming more like a hybrid between
> our notification bubbles and and interactive progress indication dialog..
> i like the visual  this is taking!
>
> some ideas on this:
>
> REMOVE THE TITLE BAR
> why?
> a) imagine you hit the cancel button..
> the window would close immediately, since there is nothing left to learn or
> to interact with in this progress dialog.
> b) minimizing this dialog should hide it, until you are notified about its
> completion.
>
> PAUSE OPERATION
> add a pause button beside the "cancel" and you'll have an easily
> discoverable "pause" feature.
>
> ADD "CONTINUE IN BACKGROUND" BUTTON
> all that's missing now is a way to let the computer know that you have
> acknowledged the informative part and you don't wish to interact..
> something like "continue in background".
> winrar does this quite well ;)
>
> OBJECT TITLE IN PROGRESS BAR
> while copying, display the title of the object being copied in the progress
> bar.
> putting this information anywhere else in the dialog window doesn't make
> too much sense.
>
> REMOVE GEEKY INFORMATION
> don't display details like filesize vs transferred data.
> the progress bar should indicate that sufficiently.
> perhaps add a [ + ] button for details on the operation.
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 00:23, David Hamm <davidthamm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I was just board. Note the whole thing is color inverse from above.
>>
>
>

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