Re: Phone Detection Status display

"Joe Pham" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.devel
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>The colour isn't necessary and makes the UI more garish.

I had to look up to find out what "garish" means.  For those who are as vocabularily challenged as I, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

garish (adj) 3: tastelessly showy

Thanks Roger :-)

>I'd suggest using bold for successful autodetection, plain for 
>manual and flashing for broken/unavailable.

I'll give that a try.  But since the statusbar is fairly small, subtle changes may not be that apparent to users.  Another user suggested a stop-light icon next the text, I might try that too.

-Joe Pham




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