Hello,
First, thanks a lot, Inkscape UI looks really clean with this. It is delightful.
On 2007-August-30 , at 04:32 , bulia byak wrote:
- When in the dock, each dialog has an Iconify button, which is good.
But the icon of that button is difficult to guess. Can we change it?
In addition it's the same icon that the configure menu for gimp's dialogs. So i personally expected a menu to open when clicking on it. Maybe just an arrow in the other direction (since it's where the dialog will be docked)?
- I think there's a little too many states of a dialog: it can be (1)
expanded in a dock, (2) squeezed into a horizontal bar in the dock
how can this be done? I can't find how to do this. when I hide it it just disappears (I have r15930 maybe you already did what bulia suggested).
and (3) iconified into a vertical strip on the side of the dock.
wasn't there something in gnome HIG against "vertical tabs" like this. KDE uses them extensively and I quite agree that this clutters the interfaces and is not really usable. I think docking it to a single icon would be enough for usability and better for our necks (even it I know what the dialog is, I always tend to bend my head and try reading the text, don't you?).
- There is a handle at the bottom of each dialog which allows to resize it vertically. but it does not work when there is an other dialog underneath. I don't think resizing them vertically is useful anyway. Could it be suppressed?
- when a dialog is docked alone, it usually takes the full height. This can give some very large (and not very nice) buttons/drop-down menus, such as the "relative to" menu in the align dialog. Can't buttons have a fixed height? I never quite understood why buttons had to be proportional to something in GTK. as long as text fit inside it's fine and resizing them looks ugly as soon as they are based on some pixmaps and given some 3d aspect.
Now, if this is to become the default for some dialogs (which would be great IMHO) it would be really nice to rework them so that they all have the same width and don't waste space when docked. And maybe to make them a little more compact if this is possible (but I know this has been worked on in the past so maybe all the compressing that was possible was already done). Currently it is difficult to have two of them open without scrolling on a not-so-small screen (1280x800).
Well, anyway, that's great.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/