83446 - Depressed Nav buttons (back, forward, reload, stop) should show visible shaft on top of hole

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Lairo]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010530

Depressed Nav buttons (back, forward, reload, stop) should show visible shaft on
top of hole

The new pressed buttons look good (bug 81872). Just one minor suggestion: Since
the nav buttons are at the TOP of the screen, one would be looking UP at the
buttons. Therefore, when looking UP at an indented button, one would more likely
see the TOP portion of the "shaft" (the hole the button moves into) and not the
bottom portion.

I suggest moving the visible part of the "shaft" from the bottom to the top.

Comment 1

[doctor__j]

> Since the nav buttons are at the TOP of the screen,
> one would be looking UP at the buttons.

Some info / argument against this bug...

http://www.hp.com/ergo/english/yourpost.html
http://www.hp.com/ergo/english/display.html

You've got a wrong working posture buddy... <big grin>

Comment 2

[Peter Lairo]

Nevertheless, the eye's main focus is the CENTER of the screen, and to ook at
the nav buttons one would look UP :)

Anyhow, relative to all other elements on screen, one is really kindof looking
UP at the buttons.

Comment 3

[Jason Johnston]

I agree with Peter; what the diagram at the first hp link doesn't show is that
with a tilt-and-swivel monitor, the screen should be perpendicular to your line
of sight.  So even if you sit higher than the monitor, your direct line of sight
forms a right angle with the center of the screen.  Things above that are
"above" your normal line of sight, so you look "up".

Comment 4

[Mike Utke]

Exercise to the reporter: Name 5 apps that do this.

If you can't, I'd suggest there's a reason why.

Exercise two: Mock up buttons with onclick to show us this looks better.

Comment 5

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

probably not gonna change these.