On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Johann Haarhoff wrote: > I actually don't know what the original rectangle shape is supposed to > signify; to me it looks like a drawer which you can open and pick one item. I > changed it to a triangle because that is what most people are used to.
i have no idea. i had no previous encounter with next before i started using wm ;) > > certainly not. i don't quite understand what's wrong with the original > > slider, but if the one in your mockup is the trendy today, i can live with > > that. > > The only reason I changed the slider is to try and make all the > sliders/scrollbars look a bit more consistent. The scrollbar with the "dot" > in it seems to be the standard NeXT scrollbar, so I figured that there is no > reason for the slider to look completely different. if and when you happen to have the time and mood, could you try to mock a slider that has this dot-y handle knob, but also slides in a "pit" like the original? i kinda-sorta realize that would make it look dangerously close to a scroll bar, but i'm curious how that would turn out or whether or not it could be somehow made to work. on the other hand, the slider looking quite similar to the scroll bar, would that be a big problem? i think it's not a far stretch to say that a slider is really a special case for a scroll bar, and if a slider could also have these arrow things (no idea what they are called), it'd also be beneficial, as they help fine-tuning the slider position a lot. just thinking out loud. and here's a question as well. does wings support some sort of layout management stuff? this measure-everything-by-the-pixel way that wprefs is written in is a pita, very unflexible and it's sort of granted that the places where pixels are stolen from neighbour elements, first translation will break them. anything there to help with that? i'm not expecting swing or qt, just maybe percentages that adjust themselves on resize (no, i haven't yet looked at any docuwhat). -- [-] mkdir /nonexistent -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
