On 2/19/06, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
Ok, the menu is no longer in the separator when it's embedded. Now it's on the right. There's an issue with it taking over more space when it's used, but overall it wastes less space now. Also, it just needs to get custom widget work done to do a menu popup button. With the embedded placement, this is needed a little more, and also is easier to work on.
A saner widget for opening the menu is badly needed, indeed. But, better yet, why not make that menu appear on right-click anywhere in the palette (as I proposed from the start) and remove any visible widget for opening it whatsoever? In that case it may be necessary to add some menu items (on top) related to the right-clicked swatch as well, such as Copy color etc., but overall it will be much less annoying than now, with less space wasted, and sufficiently usable.
Another thing which would be nice to have is scrolling the palette with middle button, in which case even the vertical scrolling will be quite usable.
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