On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 05:31, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, MenTaLguY wrote:
Could you all experiment with some different sizes and see what looks good to you?
My brain is saying different sizes := inconsistancy => bad! but try it and see.
Hmm. I still have mixed feelings about this.
The difference in sizes is kind of ugly, but the two button roles do need to be visually distinguished somehow.
Perhaps it might look better if there were an obvious ratio (e.g. 2:3) between the sizes...
Also, can we rearrange the toolbars so that the corner is occupied by the secondary toolbar, not the primary? Rationale: secondary toolbar may ultimately need lots of space for all its controls, so every pixel counts. The primary, on the other hand, is unlikely to grow significantly.
This would be good.
I've just done this in CVS.
Yes, the toolbar widget should have some indicator if the window has been shrunk too small for all the buttons to be seen. If it doesn't the widget needs to be fixed (custom widgets bad!) or Inkscape needs to use a newer version of GTK that incorportates the libegg toolbar that does this properly. (standard widgets good!)
Can you elaborate on the libegg thing? I can't find anything in the online GTK docs, but I'd kill for a better toolbar widget...
And if you do that, can you provide a bit of separation between the toolbars by moving the primary one to the bottom a little? Ultimately I would like to see in that interval a "handle" that will let me drag the toolbar e.g. to the right edge or make it floatable, but until then, let it be just a few pixels of empty space.
Well, perhaps I should use the GTK detachable toolbar widget there, though the plain GTK one is kind of weak. :/
I've gone ahead with the standard GtkHandleBox for now, but we definitely need something better...
-mental