Andreas' link to the Gnome HIG (v2.0) got me to send this mail... While browsing the gnucash website for available documentation, I found that the documentation page (http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml) still points to version 1.0 of the HIG.
The links is found under the heading Documentation Development -> Interesting links -> GNOME Human Interface Guidelines Since GnuCash is now based on Gnome2, maybe this link should be updated as well. Regards, Geert On Monday 8 October 2007, Geert Janssens wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Thanks for committing my first patch ! > > As for the second, you are more then correct. I think your solution is way > more elegant. Please go for that one. > > I still have a lot to learn about GUI development with gtk and glade. I > like it though, so when I find the time, I may dig into the gnome hig you > point to, and where possible make some more improvements. > > Cheers, > > Geert > > On Monday 8 October 2007, Andreas Köhler wrote: > > Hi Geert, > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 03.10.2007, 23:54 +0200 schrieb Geert Janssens: > > > Based on some issues I encountered today with posting invoices (see > > > also the irc logs for more details), I have done some minor gui > > > improvements in the business dialogs. They don't solve my post problem > > > at the core (that would require more indepth programming knowledge), > > > but they help improve visibility. > > > > > > 1. The post dialog > > > Current situation: the information in the "Post to account" field is > > > not completely visible. Widening the dialog doesn't help, because the > > > field has a fixed with and doesn't expand. > > > New situation: when the dialog expands, the variable fields expand with > > > it. This allows for the "Post to account" to grow until the full > > > account text is visible. > > > > Applied as r16555, together with a change to the newAccountButton to > > make it non-expanding. > > > > > 2. Search dialog > > > Current situation: sometimes when the search returns a lot of results, > > > a lot of scrolling is required to get to the desired result. Increasing > > > the size of the search dialog doesn't help, because the result part of > > > the dialog has a fixed height. > > > New situation: I have added a split pane widget (along with some > > > changes to keep the end result tidy). With this, the user can increase > > > the size of the result part independently from the search criteria > > > part. Currently, the search criteria part is about one criterium high. > > > This can still be changed if needed. > > > > Hm. From my point of view a viewport inside a scrolledwindow inside an > > expanding&filling frame inside an vpaned is overkill :-D > > What do you think about something along the lines of the attached diff? > > It removes the scrolledwindow and viewport, makes the frame > > non-expanding and puts the "type of search" to the bottom. If you add > > search criteria the results widget is simply made smaller. > > > > > I have attached two diff files (generated with svn diff) for the > > > affected glade files. > > > > > > I hope you guys find the modifications useful. > > > > Thank you a lot for your work! If you have the time and want to help > > us, the business dialogs need a lot of hig[1] love :-) > > > > -- andi5 > > > > [1] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/ > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel