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[Sohail Mirza <mirzmaster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps better than replacing the text with a throbber would be to show both
side-by-side.  Replacing the text would likely lead to confusion as to what
action was originally invoked, especially in circumstances where further
feedback is delayed.  :)


On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is not just isolated to the installer. It would be nice if every
> button press system wide showed some kind of indication that the click was
> received. What might be nice is if the button text disappeared and a little
> circular progress indicator showed for a second or two before being replaced
> back with the button text again (a cross fade to the spinner, and back to
> text would look pretty cool actually).
>
> Luke.
>
> On 9 September 2010 12:28, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> after hesitating for quite some time now, i installed Maverick on my
>> production machines, and it is running like a charm!
>> Thanks to the everybody @ Canonical for all the great work, thanks to the
>> entire community for making this possible in the first place ;)
>>
>> Reliability:
>> As in the physical universe, not all interaction objects are realiable.
>> Yet, when a process fails to start, i know immediately that something is
>> wrong.
>> The most unlikely thing to happen is that i press a button or switch, only
>> to be left guessing for a quarter of a minute, whether anything has been
>> invoked, activated or started by my action.
>>
>>
>> http://lh6.ggpht.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TH7Lkl4Jd-I/AAAAAAAAByc/ttFY5lOV3cA/ubuntu-10.10-screenshot.png
>> and
>>
>> http://lh4.ggpht.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TH7Lk9DqKYI/AAAAAAAAByk/w27hJZiRIII/ubuntu-10.10-installer2.png
>> show dialogs containing "Forward" buttons in the installation dialog,
>> which show no feedback upon click.
>>
>> The Forward button should react in realtime when clicked: at the moment
>> there is no reaction for about 10-20 seconds.
>> This is insufficient, e.g. because:
>> * user doesn't know if the button was clicked or not
>> * user doesn't know if the click started anything or not
>> * user might click again, to make sure (confirming Forward on the next
>> page accidentally)
>> * user is irritated and becomes impatient after the instant interaction
>> feedback time (~ 0 - 1 sec) is over
>>
>> Realtime Interaction is the impression of live interaction with a system.
>> This impression is a model of what we experience as physical reality, it is
>> easy to model after that symbolically.
>> Every interaction, input or gesture creates ripples on the surface of the
>> GUI, just like a finger that touches a "surface" indents the surface or
>> changes its state.
>>
>> The simplest way of solving the "Forward" button problem here, is to add
>> another frame/state to the forward button, i.e. "pressed".
>>
>> thoughts?
>>
>>
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