A few suggestions on the UI of Appearance.app
(as seen in fresh #next); some of these might
possibly duplicate other people's comments:
1) Wording in the second tab: "When dragging a
maximized window..." might look more neat as:
"Dragging a maximized window...", together with
corresponding changes in the combo list strings:
"...change*s* ...", "...restore*s* ...",
"...makes the window unmaximized", "...does not
move the window".
2) The new default application icon is not very
visible on any kind of darker background,
alt-tab panel included. Might use some light
aureole or something.
3) The default application icon is (still)
changeable only through direct editing of
configs. Is it possible to add a widget for this
into Appearance.app, on icons search path tab,
possibly?
4) What does "Enable window snapping" do (last
tab)? Is it related with things set in the
windows handling tab (2nd from the left)? I've
tried enabling and disabling this, and have seen
no discernible difference.
5) Personally, I am always forgetting what
"apercu" means after like 5 minutes of finding
it and perusing it in the list archives. I guess
lots of folks have the same problem. Could we
change this term to "mini-preview" or "window
peek" or something?
6) Background texture tab has two sub-tabs
"Texture" and "Color", which deal, essentially
with the same kind of things. Could those be
renamed as "Main scheme" and, I don't know,
"Scheme details"?
For the Wmaker dialogs in general:
7.1) Icon setting dialog has immutable paths
list. Could we have + and - buttons there,
adding (or opening add dialog) and removing
paths from this list, like GTK dialogs do?
7.2) Icon setting dialog has icon files (names)
list, which does not allow for a quick browse
with mouse wheel, like other graphics toolkits
do. Mouse wheeling just scrolls the list, not
moving the selection. Could this be redone a little?
7.3) Icon themes usually have subdirs for
different sizes. Some icons in, say, 48x48 look
good in wmaker's 64x64 grid, some icons look
better in 64x64. Currently we have to add both
icon search paths into the lists, creating
certain clutter. Could this dialog be modified,
e.g., by adding a "Icon theme path" checkbox for
the search path item and going from always
two-columns layout to three-columns layout for
themes directories and two-columns for common
directories?
-Yury
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