On 1/29/07, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote: That's no reason not to fix the English one - it's the most widely read one anyway. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bryce Harrington wrote: Although it is not a bug per se there is/was an option to "Show Close button on dialog" that is unfortunately disabled by default, which defeats the purpose of the Close button. The Gnome HIG recommends including close buttons on dialogs like the Preferences dialog to make things that much clearer for beginners, but if it is off by default Inkscape beginners who it is intended for cannot know to turn it on themselves. There is an open request for just such functionality so that the Export bitmap dialog might have a Close button: [ 1096715 ] add optional "close" buttons to all dialogs https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1096715&... but bizarrely the Export dialog does not get a close button when the feature is enabled. Preferences and Layers both do follow the setting. Text dialog always has a close button, as does the About dialog. The disadvantage of turning it on is that unfortunately 'dialog' refers to both the bigger transitory dialogs which really should have a close button (and probably a help button too[1]) like Preferences and also to the smaller always open dialogs like the Layers palette which are quite different really no one expects to include an extra close button. This approach assumes all dialogs are the same but they are not, and always open palette/panel style dialogs can and should be treated differently and not be expected to follow the HIG in the same way an ordinary dialog should. So I'm asking that the feature be turned on by default[2] so that dialogs like Preferences are not left without a Close button. Later the distinction between palettes and ordinary dialogs can be made clearer and the option would be unnecessary and could possibly be remove. From looking at src/ui/dialog/inkscape-preferences.cpp the file in Subversion in an attempt to provide a simple patch this is no longer where it used to be and it may have been moved/removed already. It was still in the nightly build I grabbed from last week. If it is already fixed well then at least I can get on with closing a few requests. Thanks in advance Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhorkan http://alanhorkan.livejournal.com/ [1] [ 1504038 ] Close (and Help) button(s) in preferences dialog (HIG) http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1504038&... [2] [ 1577253 ] HIG: Show Close buttons on dialogs by default https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1577253&...

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bryce Harrington wrote: My intention was that for now the setting be switched on by default, which should only be a one liner (and I would have included a patch with my previous comment only the feature seems to have moved) as a change that small shouldn't be a problem to slip in even at this late stage. Sure there would be quite a bit more needed to be done after that but the rest could wait. -- Alan

layers dialog etc, which are not something we want to mess up by default. If this was so significant, it needed raising a long time ago so the kinks could be ironed out. On 1/31/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:

Bryce, Bryce Harrington wrote: ... 1. As I wrote after the 0.45 pre0 there a files missing to build on win32 properly from the the tar.gz : -buildtool.cpp and build.xml (using new buildsystem) or -src\deptool.cpp running the makefile system 2. Also there is a need for a small fix in the win32 packaging script (one file missing). I will come up with patches for that later the day when I am back home. Adib. ---