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

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