[Design] Selections without focus in Chandler

[Mike Taylor]

On Oct 5, 2006, at 5:53 PM, John Anderson wrote:

> Chandler, like many applications, displays more than one selection at 
> the same time e.g. in the sidebar and summary view. Commands can only 
> operate on one selection, the one that has keyboard focus. To make 
> this distinction clear we draw selections that don't have the focus in 
> a lighter shade of selection color than the selections that have the 
> focus.
>
> However, I've notice that people are still confused when a command 
> doesn't work on a selection that doesn't have the focus. I'm thinking 
> that we need to make the difference between focused selections and 
> non-focused selections more distinct, and was wondering what people 
> think about drawing the non-focused selection in gray rather than a 
> lighter shade of the selection color.

Two points, one dealing directly and the a general question.

First, the only concern I would have is to make sure the gray color of 
the text is always in contrast to the background color or you will 
confuse people who have worse color vision than myself :)

Second - and this is a more general question, should the keyboard focus 
always be where the attention of the user is?  I would think that would 
be required if Chandler is to be used without a mouse.

Feel free to tell me "we covered that earlier" and I will go and find 
the archive link as penance for not researching it myself now.

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