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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:38, Allan Day <allanpday@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:13 +0200, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi Allan,
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 19:44, Allan Day <allanpday@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >         I totally agree about the desirability of this feature. Which
> >         is why I'm
> >         glad that it's being worked on for GNOME 3.0. :) Initial
> >         mockups can be
> >         found in the GNOME design repository [1].
> >
> >  [...]
> >
> >
> >         [1]
> >
> http://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/blobs/master/mockups/control%20center/web-services/web-services.png
> >
> > finally we'll have ON|OFF for an account!
> > Thanks for bringing this to the forefront ;)
>
> Erm, well it's just a mockup (and it's not my mockup). I have no idea
> how they are going to implement this, actually, since GTK doesn't have
> this kind of widget.
>

ideas that are so obviously useful and easy to implement will find their way
into our desktop, i'm sure.
The HIG3.0 will offer a great opportunity, providing design patterns for all
use cases the community that designs this new HIG can come up with in formal
language..

A high level design pattern would be for example to make the degree of
affordance a function of its utility in the context at hand.. but that's OT
here, i guess..