Thanks for your thoughtful comments. Yes, the button vs. menu notion makes a good deal of sense. It does make me wonder if we were hasty removing the borders from those buttons in GTK+ theme.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:42 AM, krtulmay<[email protected]> wrote: > > Daniele's idea is more to the point in that both "Page" and "Wrench" > have drop down arrows next to them. > > In fact, the technical difference is that it's not true that there are > "two different kinds of buttons" on the toolbar, but rather "Page" and > "Wrench" are not buttons per se, but are menus. For details see: > http://dev.chromium.org/user-experience/toolbar > > You see that Back, Forward, Reload, Home, Bookmark, and Go/Stop are > referred to as buttons, but the following two are "Page Menu" and > "Chromium (Wrench) Menu". And it would seem menus are only given > visible edges when you mouseover them. > > On Jul 29, 3:28 am, PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote: >> My guess is that they are actively working on these issues. >> ☆PhistucK >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:58, Daniele S. <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I can try to guess. Maybe because the page and the wrench buttons have the >> > drop down arrow and when edges are visible the icon is not centered on >> > those. >> > Daniele S. >> >> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Evan R. Murphy >> > <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >> Can anybody lend some insight into the visual design decision to have >> >> two different kinds of buttons in the toolbar? I'm referring to how >> >> the page and wrench menu buttons (in addition to anything on the >> >> bookmarks bar) only have visible edges when you mouse over them, while >> >> the back/forward, reload, home, star and stop/go buttons all have >> >> visible edges constantly. >> >> >> This isn't a complaint, as I actually kind of like it. It just struck >> >> me as odd for a browser so interested in minimalism as Chrome, and I >> >> was curious to hear your thoughts on it. >> >> >> Also, note that the recent revision 21233 has changed the >> >> back/forward, reload and home buttons to only show edges on mouseover >> >> (and so match the page and wrench menu buttons in that way) for the >> >> GTK+ theme. [1] >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Evan R. Murphy >> >> >> [1]http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=21233 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
