[Design] Read-only-ness in the Cosmo UI
Matthew Eernisse
mde at osafoundation.org
Tue Jan 2 11:02:35 PST 2007
See inline, below ...
Priscilla Chung wrote:
> Do we want to disable the 'Remove' & 'Save' buttons or would it be
> better to not even have it appear? There needs to be an no edit icon on
> the top right of the event details (of a pencil w/ a strike through–see
> enclosed icon from iCal) If a user tries to click into a form field and
> starts to create an edit, perhaps we can prompt an error dialog to say
> this is a read only calendar. This would also appear if the user tries
> to move an event on the calendar canvas.
Removing the buttons completely is definitely an option -- although when
users are looking at different collection subscriptions, and some of
them are read-only, it might look weirder for the buttons to disappear
and reappear than just to disable. What do you think?
The error dialog when clicking into a form field sounds like it might be
a good idea. I don't think we need that for moving/resizing, since the
pointer is not a move/resize pointer, and dragging has no effect anyway
-- the lozenge itself won't move or resize.
Matthew
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