Re: Malformed checkboxes in Window Attributes window
Hi, Josip Deanovic schreef: Hi! Did anybody else notice the malformed look of checkboxes in "Window Attributes" window? Yes, but it's not malformed. The first (read-only) box indicates the window hint requested by the program. The second one is a tristate check box, that can be changed to override it. Some programs (GNOME/GTK?) might need it to run correctly under Window Maker. (See also the Help balloon, when hovering the first check box. It can also be used to remove the resize bar on some Window Maker panels, as they can't be resized currently. To turn the resize bar off in those panels by default, would look better imho: WPrefs panel, Color panel, and the panels for opening images/directories/programs. I have attached the screenshot (~189KiB, PNG) which shows how it looks on my setup. Regards -- [alwin] -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
Re: Malformed checkboxes in Window Attributes window
Quoting message written on Saturday 2015-06-20 10:41:37: > Hi, > > Josip Deanovic schreef: > > Hi! > > > > Did anybody else notice the malformed look of checkboxes in "Window > > Attributes" window? > > Yes, but it's not malformed. The first (read-only) box indicates the > window hint requested by the program. The second one is a tristate check > box, that can be changed to override it. Some programs (GNOME/GTK?) > might need it to run correctly under Window Maker. (See also the Help > balloon, when hovering the first check box. > > It can also be used to remove the resize bar on some Window Maker > panels, as they can't be resized currently. To turn the resize bar off > in those panels by default, would look better imho: WPrefs panel, Color > panel, and the panels for opening images/directories/programs. > Thank you for the response. This is probably some new feature as I don't remember seeing this before. I have just turned on balloons for "internal help". Without this I couldn't see the help balloon for check boxes. The appearance of the check boxes immediately reminded me to the look of an incorrectly drawn area i X, that's why I thought it was a malformed check box. :-) -- Josip Deanovic -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
Re: Malformed checkboxes in Window Attributes window
Alwin escribió: Hi, Josip Deanovic schreef: Hi! Did anybody else notice the malformed look of checkboxes in "Window Attributes" window? Yes, but it's not malformed. The first (read-only) box indicates the window hint requested by the program. The second one is a tristate check box, that can be changed to override it. Some programs (GNOME/GTK?) might need it to run correctly under Window Maker. (See also the Help balloon, when hovering the first check box. It can also be used to remove the resize bar on some Window Maker panels, as they can't be resized currently. To turn the resize bar off in those panels by default, would look better imho: WPrefs panel, Color panel, and the panels for opening images/directories/programs. Hello, IMO, this new feature is terrible :-) I don't like it and is difficult to understand for an user. Is not intutive. The checkboxes don't have title or something like that show what they do. Really the user want to know the hint requested by the program? If the dialog.c/panels* needs handle titlebar, resizebar,... it could be implemented in the window.c/wCreateInternalWindow function. IMO, this feature should be removed and find new ideas for the problems. Cheers, kix PS: I had the same thought, malformed look of checkboxes in "Window Attributes" window I have attached the screenshot (~189KiB, PNG) which shows how it looks on my setup. Regards -- [alwin] -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org. Rodolfo García Peñas (kix) http://www.kix.es/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
Re: Malformed checkboxes in Window Attributes window
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 at 10:58:13 +, Rodolfo García Peñas (kix) wrote: > > Alwin escribió: > > >Hi, > > > >Josip Deanovic schreef: > >>Hi! > >> > >>Did anybody else notice the malformed look of checkboxes in "Window > >>Attributes" window? > > > >Yes, but it's not malformed. The first (read-only) box indicates > >the window hint requested by the program. The second one is a > >tristate check box, that can be changed to override it. Some > >programs (GNOME/GTK?) might need it to run correctly under Window > >Maker. (See also the Help balloon, when hovering the first check > >box. > > > >It can also be used to remove the resize bar on some Window Maker > >panels, as they can't be resized currently. To turn the resize bar > >off in those panels by default, would look better imho: WPrefs > >panel, Color panel, and the panels for opening > >images/directories/programs. > > Hello, > > IMO, this new feature is terrible :-) > > I don't like it and is difficult to understand for an user. Is not > intutive. The checkboxes don't have title or something like that > show what they do. > > Really the user want to know the hint requested by the program? > > If the dialog.c/panels* needs handle titlebar, resizebar,... it > could be implemented in the window.c/wCreateInternalWindow function. > > IMO, this feature should be removed and find new ideas for the problems. I agree. The current layout is confusing, looks bad, and has no counterpart in NEXTSTEP afaik. Furthermore, having the two types of checkboxes side by side looks redundant. Christophe, I guess this solution needs to be reverted. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
