On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Bill Baxter wrote:
The Eee PC has a 800x480 screen, so ideally it should be possible to run Inkscape with most of the icons not displayed.
Cramming Inkscape on a smaller screen could be quite a challenge, would affect more than just the toolbar layout.
is there a way to make the toolbar horizontal instead of vertical? the number of tools is only going to grow.
If space is absolutely at a premium some of the tools might be consolidated, or functionality presented in a different way. (Other programs cram the polygons and stars in a single tool for example. Adobe Illustrator requires you to click and hold to see some of the subcategory tools, not that either of these approaches are without their flaws, just possibilities to consider rather than having even more tools shown all at once.)
Or you could combat the space problem by adding another column or two like in Photoshop and Gimp etc.
Given the fact that Inkscape moved away from the layout of Sodipodi and GIMP an alternative solution would seem more likely.
I noticed the developers have made changes due in 0.46 to use standard GTK toolbars. Hopefully the standard overflow widget will soon follow if not already working in 0.46.