Iconbar app-specific visual ack with Menu

Sometimes I decide to quit a number of applications in order to free up memory or to declutter the iconbar. This is done quickly by pressing Menu and then selecting Quit on each app. Inaccurate pointer use and general carelessness/impatience can sometimes result in quitting the wrong app! (Also possibly the case for some users with poor motor control – an area Acorn always used to take very seriously AIUI in the special needs education sector.)

1. Invert colours, as in directory viewers, etc.
2. Depressed ‘plinth’ effect, as with dialogue box buttons, if feasible within constraints of adjacent icons.

Such a feature may be best disabled for certain apps, e.g. Alarm. In order for old apps to exhibit this behaviour, those requiring it to be disabled would probably have to specifically notify this preference. As with most existing features, it might be useful for users to be able to globally disable/enable (but not for apps saying “no”), with the default OS setting yet to be decided.

The feature could work similarly for filing systems. TinyDirs may need special consideration, as they seem to follow (1) above already.