bulia byak wrote:
On 11/22/05, Karol Krenski <pldmimooh@...954...> wrote:
It could look exactly like it looks now: the rectangle with 'the slider' invisible, but there may be no such a gtk widget? I find slider more comfortable than spinbox, but that may be just my own preference.
I also thought at first that I would prefer a slider. But then I asked myself, why exactly is slider better? The answer was simply that a slider allows to quickly, in one move, set the value to 1 or 0 (i.e. ends of scale), and also to quickly - but very approximately - set it to "low" or "mid" or "high". For everything else a spinbutton is better. So I decided to combine the advantages: I used a spinbutton but added a right-click menu that has commands for 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1. Also by middle-clicking on the O: label you can quickly set it to 0, 0.5, or 1.
Don't forget to mention the other great functions... if you right click on the spin buttons it goes to either 0 or 1 immediately (depending on if you right-click the up or down arrows) and middle clicking the arrows goes in increments of .10... Bulia, you ROCK!!!!! At first I too was thinking "but I preferred the slider", but I really don't think I'll miss it much. What I will miss a bit if we eventually ditch the fill and stroke dialog will be the extra digit you can work with there (allowing thousandths vs hundredths). Yes... I do require that level of accuracy for some things.
Here's a quick thought to appease the slider folk though, could we make it so if you hold a right-click on the arrows and move up or down so it would adjust the numbers accordingly? Personally I would most likely still use that occasionally.
-Josh