On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 10:33 AM, Alan Horkan wrote: > >> Joaquin's wonderful insert Table widget. >> >> Thanks also to Dom for help getting this in. This is so nice I've >> included it twice. It's also on the "Extras" toolbar. > > It is really nice, > brilliant invention. > > but including it twice seems like a bad idea (usability stuff about > duplication being confusing)
Agreed. > i was hoping that there would be more smaller toolbars in future and > that > that there would be enough items (as little as 2 or 3) for a table > toolbar. > > Lost of smaller toolbars help solve layout and usability issues ... too > lazy to type further explanation Lots of smaller toolbars improve layout and usability issues if the smaller toolbars are easily joinable/mergable (i.e. the ability to merge smaller 3-item toolbars into one larger toolbar). GTK+ toolbars can't do that out of the box. Gnome could, but the results could be... uhm... disastrous from an aesthetic viewpoint (download a gnome build of 0.7.10 or 0.7.11 and you'll see what I mean). Dom
