Daniele's idea is more to the point in that both "Page" and "Wrench" have drop down arrows next to them.
In fact, the technical difference is that it's not true that there are "two different kinds of buttons" on the toolbar, but rather "Page" and "Wrench" are not buttons per se, but are menus. For details see: http://dev.chromium.org/user-experience/toolbar You see that Back, Forward, Reload, Home, Bookmark, and Go/Stop are referred to as buttons, but the following two are "Page Menu" and "Chromium (Wrench) Menu". And it would seem menus are only given visible edges when you mouseover them. On Jul 29, 3:28 am, PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote: > My guess is that they are actively working on these issues. > ☆PhistucK > > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:58, Daniele S. <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can try to guess. Maybe because the page and the wrench buttons have the > > drop down arrow and when edges are visible the icon is not centered on > > those. > > Daniele S. > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Evan R. Murphy > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> Can anybody lend some insight into the visual design decision to have > >> two different kinds of buttons in the toolbar? I'm referring to how > >> the page and wrench menu buttons (in addition to anything on the > >> bookmarks bar) only have visible edges when you mouse over them, while > >> the back/forward, reload, home, star and stop/go buttons all have > >> visible edges constantly. > > >> This isn't a complaint, as I actually kind of like it. It just struck > >> me as odd for a browser so interested in minimalism as Chrome, and I > >> was curious to hear your thoughts on it. > > >> Also, note that the recent revision 21233 has changed the > >> back/forward, reload and home buttons to only show edges on mouseover > >> (and so match the page and wrench menu buttons in that way) for the > >> GTK+ theme. [1] > > >> Regards, > >> Evan R. Murphy > > >> [1]http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=21233 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
