From: Johan Björk (phearbear@home.se)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 17:25:55 EST
Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
>A last suggestion. Instead of using a red cursor, it better to show the
>overwrite mode with a block caret instead of a vertical bar caret. That
>way you give a hint to the user that you're going to "eat" the next
>character if he writes something.
>
>(That's, btw, the gnome-usability suggestion. I think that there is a
>bug report on gnome bugzilla against GtkTextView to implement something
>like that)
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>
>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>De : owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com
>>[mailto:owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com] De la part de Dom Lachowicz
>>Envoyé : lundi 20 janvier 2003 16:30
>>Ā : Tomas Frydrych; abiword-dev@abisource.com
>>Objet : Re: INS
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>>>What I was going to suggest even before this thread
>>>started was to
>>>use the same trick Emacs does and change the colour
>>>of the caret
>>>in the OVER mode to a bright colour (bright red?).
>>>This would be
>>>simple to implement, clearly noticeable, and
>>>unobtrusive.
>>>
>>>
>>Approved.
>>
>>Dom
>>
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QNX/Photon does this by making the cursor horizontal instead of
vertical, the lenght of one char.
I personaly thinks this might be a bit better, as it's more subtile and
I don't like big warning signs for something as common as INS/OVR as
it's a really handy feature :)
Then again, if we want a huge and big 'warning' the square is probably
better.
/Johan
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