On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 01:05 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Ronan Jouchet wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:11:14 +0200 > > From: Ronan Jouchet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Usability] Toolbar flexibility ideas > > > > Hi, I've 3 UI questions about possible flexibility improvements in > > GNOME/GTK UIs : > > > > - One of the things that I miss from some (Windows) apps is good toolbar > > customizability. Firefox/TBird also do a great job there with their > > customizable panels. > > > I thought that sort of feature wasn't planned in GNOME apps, but then I > > found one magic Evince dialog : Edit>Toolbar. Wow ! Ala-Firefox > > draggable items, separators, smooth animation, great ! > > Abiword has customisable toolbars too, just so you know. > > > Hence : Is expanding this type of feature to all GNOME apps planned ? > > There are not any specific plans I am aware of which is not to say that > there is anything stopping a developer coming along tomorrow and providing > patches to add such functionality to Gtk.
There was talk of getting a toolbar editor into GTK+, but I don't know what came of it. My guess is it's waiting on the long-standing request for a high-level application window widget. > > - In the same domain, why the "Detachable Toolbar" tickbox in > > System>Preferences>Menus&Toolbars is only effective on a few apps ? > > (e.g. Evolution yes, gedit no, Nautilus no) > > Many applications fail to implement this feature. > When gedit moved from an older type of Toolbar they dropped the feature > without thinking about it. To be more precise, this was a feature of the toolbars found in libbonoboui. GTK+ toolbars never had this feature, and writing it oneself is non-trivial. Thus, as more and more applications move away from bonobo, fewer and fewer applications have this feature. Personally, I don't think this is a good candidate for a desktop-wide toggle. Individual applications should decide whether this is useful for their users, and allow users to toggle the feature in the toolbar editor dialog. (It's certainly not something I would be inclined to add to Yelp, for instance.) -- Shaun _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
