On 3/4/06, Damien Pollet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/4/06, Nicolas Roard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I think I agree. While I was curious about the introduction of > > vertical separators, I think they indeed make the menu look busier. > > To make a parallel with typography, that's kind like tables... many > people (maybe due to some office application with stupid defaults...) > tend to frame their tables and put lines to separate each column, each > line, etc... Often I only put one line below the column headers, and > use spacing (\quad in LaTeX) to separate columns. White space > separates better and doesn't bring noise (try applying a 10 pixel blur > to the screenshots).
depends on the table, sometimes it's much better to put lines ;-) > For the detachable menus, I don't like that the menu title is > repeated, and takes the place of the 1st item. yes, me neither. > What about adding a "grab bar" at the bottom of the menu instead > (could look like the resize bar of windows) ? The menu would act like > on Mac (no title on submenus, only the added grab bar), but if you > click in or select the grab bar, the menu detaches. Detached menus > display their title at the top, with an appearance similar to the > horizontal menu bar. The grab bar can disappear, or better, stay here > and act as an additional handle to move the menu. Don't know.. why not after all. It's all a problem of "what's the less bad solution" in fact ;-) So yes, perhaps a bottom grab bar is better. I had another idea too, but which is perhaps more a matter for Azalea -- in the case of tear-off menu, I wouldn't mind having the menus "stick" together. Eg, you could stick a menu to another vertically, in order to form a kind of "menu dock". Similar to Photoshop palettes or Omnigraffle palettes. > Just writing this I got another idea... what if the mouse had a > physical button reserved for a "grab" action, rather than click = > select, double-click = activate, and so on... ? Not everyone has a multi-button mouse :D Seriously, we should work _well_ with one-button mouse, but obviously we must support properly more than one button. In this case, why not having some specific action that you could trigger directly via a mouse button. -- Nicolas Roard "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
