Hello
I noticed that in the "Save as" dialog, when you save a new file, the fields order when you do TAB is:
File Name Type Save Cancel Title
So you more likely will hit "Save" before you get a chance to fill in "Title".
I remember a discussion about this on IRC, and the goal of adding the Title field was that it shouldn't "get in the way" of the user, or something, even though the "Title" field is part of the SVG specification (or something like that)
So I'm wondering... would it make a big difference to have the order: File Name Type Title Save Cancel
For people using the mouse to go from field to field, it won't make a lot of difference (I think), but for those like me who use TAB in that dialog, it would (3 TAB instead of 5, but 4 TAB instead of 3 for save)
Also, it's a "Save as" dialog, so if you change the File name or the Type, there are chances that you would also change Title maybe, but the current order makes it more likely that you hit "Save" first.
The same comment applies to the "Save a copy..." dialog.
Anyway, that's only a question - I'm curious about why the current order is as it is, that is all :-) What do you people think?
Regards
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 00:18 -0700, worms invasion wrote:
Anyway, that's only a question - I'm curious about why the current order is as it is, that is all :-) What do you people think?
I would guess that's the default order assigned by GTK, which is based on the widget hierarchy. I'd say your ordering is better.
--Ted
The solution is to call gtk_container_set_focus_chain or its gtkmm equivalent (in Gtk::Container) with the appropriately ordered list of widgets.
Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński
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worms invasion