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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 16/12/11 04:54:
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> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 13:35, Matthew Paul Thomas
> <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
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>> My design for Update Manager does use a morphing window. 
>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#Installing>
>> 
>> The code "didn't land in 11.10" because it doesn't exist yet. :-)
>> I would be delighted if anyone volunteered to implement even a
>> small bit of that design. (I've specified it as lots of
>> independent chunks, to make this easier.)
> 
> At the moment, the most challenging part of your spec would be the 
> visual morphing animation to be specific. Which exact chunk would
> you designate as chunk #1, in case someone decides to make the
> first step here? Perhaps there's an effective way of taking the
> edge off here, without reducing the effect of your concept.


Even without any morphing animation, the interface elements inside the
alert window could all be removed, and replaced by the elements that
have, up till now, been displayed in the separate progress window.

>> However, while that would solve Nick's problem for Update Manager
>> in particular, it would not solve the problem in general. For
>> example, when you save a document for the first time, the
>> document window shouldn't morph into a Save dialog. That would
>> change too much of the screen at once (visual instability), and
>> it would hide information that you needed for deciding the
>> document's name.
> 
> what information would that be?


The contents of the document.

(Sheet-style dialogs have a similar problem: they unmovably cover
information that you sometimes need for making decisions in the dialog.)

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