There are going to be three "toolbars" in Inkscape:
1. Under the menu, horizontal, with buttons for common non-tool-specific operations such as Open, Save, etc.
2. Below 1, horizontal, with too-specific buttons and controls (exists now and is called "top panel" or "aux toolbar").
3. Vertical at the left, with tool buttons.
The question is: How to call them? They are all "toolbars" technically but using the word "toolbar" without distinction is going to be very confusing. Even using "toolbar" for 3 only is going to be confusing because people are used to calling "toolbars" any horizontal rows of buttons.
So the names need to be unique but at the same time descriptive and short. Most importantly, they must stick. "Top panel" for 2 did not stick, somehow.
Here is the best I could think of:
1. Commands bar 2. Tool controls bar 3. Toolbox
Any other ideas?
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There are going to be three "toolbars" in Inkscape:
hi
I'm sorry to come nagging right now, but i started sodipodi recently, and discovered, that i like the zoom tool options floating around all the time. woulèd it be a big conceptual problem, for all this toolbars to be individualy dispacheble?
regards, bostjan spetic
bulia byak delineò:
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Here is the best I could think of:
- Commands bar
- Tool controls bar
- Toolbox
Any other ideas?
To make translators happier it is better to avoid "noun noun noun" sequences (as for the second toolbar).
Maybe "Tool specific bar" could be a good idea?
On Sunday 20 June 2004 21:44, Florent wrote:
- Commands bar
- Tool controls bar
- Toolbox
This is nice.
This one may be a good option too:
1. Commands bar 2. Tool Controls bar 3. Tool Options bar
Artemio.
Quoth bulia byak on or about 2004-06-20:
Here is the best I could think of:
- Commands bar
- Tool controls bar
- Toolbox
Lose the plurality: command bar, tool control bar, toolbox.
Having two words sucks, too. How about:
* Main Bar * Tweak Bar ([Fine] Tuning? [Tool] Options?) * Toolbox
Calling it the `toolbox' is a bit of a misnomer, since it's not a box anymore. `Tool Bar' is worse, unfortunately.
Unfortunately I can't spot any useful advice in the Apple HIGs: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/pdf/HIGOS8Guidelines.pdf http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/pdf/HIGuidelines.pdf http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuid...
What does AI call them?
-trent
It was writ by bulia:
There are going to be three "toolbars" in Inkscape:
- Under the menu, horizontal, with buttons for common non-tool-specific
operations such as Open, Save, etc. 2. Below 1, horizontal, with too-specific buttons and controls (exists now and is called "top panel" or "aux toolbar"). 3. Vertical at the left, with tool buttons.
So the names need to be unique but at the same time descriptive and short.
My vote is:
1. One 2. Two 3. Three
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bulia byak wrote: [...]
Here is the best I could think of:
- Commands bar
- Tool controls bar
- Toolbox
Any other ideas?
let see how other projects are naming those toolbars: one example is OpenOffice.org, with the same 3 toolbars, named: Main Toolbar, Function Bar and Object Bar. i see here value for end-users, having the same naming conventions on multiple OSS applications is less confusing for them
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:22:13 +0000 From: bulia byak <archiver_1@...9...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] terminology - help needed
There are going to be three "toolbars" in Inkscape:
- Under the menu, horizontal, with buttons for common non-tool-specific
operations such as Open, Save, etc.
Gnome calls this the standard toolbar
- Below 1, horizontal, with too-specific buttons and controls (exists now
and is called "top panel" or "aux toolbar").
Jasc and Adobe call this the "tool options palette" (it is usually bigger, not strictly a toolbar).
- Vertical at the left, with tool buttons.
I'd simply call this the toolbar or toolbox, but there may be a better description.
- Alan
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