Subject: cursor overkill on top ruler?
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 15:50:56 CST
One more UI nitpick before I relurk...
Am I the only one who feels like we've gone too far with context-sensitive
cursor changes on the top ruler? For example, all of the following seem
invasive or downright confusing to me:
- the huge swirly cursor on the tab toggle widget
- the left-right cursor only makes sense for moving margins
- changing that cursor to a hand while dragging controls is even worse
If I had more time, I'd love to back out most of those cursor contexts and
*only* use them for the following case:
- change the cursor to indicate that margins can be moved
- ensure that the cursor *never* changes state during a drag
This is fairly close to the way the left ruler works now.
Moreover, now that we have cursor feedback here, we could improve the direct
manipulation UI a bit more by getting rid of the extra Abi-specific ruler
widget for margin changes, and just go with the standard UI of making that
thin light-gray bar draggable instead.
Paul,
GUI grinch
PS: There are also glitches with ruler-related status text changes not
getting cleared in some cases. More testing needed there as well.
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