preview in wallpaper dialog

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday, August 11, 2010 23:43:26 todd rme wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Vitor Boschi <vitorboschi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We may put a preview button that displays the wallpaper fullscreen,
> > while hiding the config dialog for a while.
> 
> There was a brainstorm idea that, when you hovered over a particular
> wallpaper it would temporarily replace fade out the configuration
> dialog and replace your existing wallpaper with the one you hovered
> over (with all your plasmoids intact).  A button would work as well,
> but I think having it show how your desktop will really look, complete
> with plasmoids, is important since a lot of wallpapers and plasma
> themes do not work well together.

If I understand correctly, that's a really bad ID usability-wise. You show a 
preview and remove the dialog the user is operating on under his nose. If a 
preview is needed (and I seriously doubt that), then the way it was previously 
is much better than all that dynamic UI stuff, because it doesn't require the 
user to understand a new dialog when the preview appears, so less context 
switching. A tooltip, or something like that might work, though, and is a much 
more common metaphore for previewing something.
-- 
sebas

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