I think that there's a bug open to make the tool bar button size
dynamically, primarily to make them usable on hidpi monitors. Are this
and the combo box size issue related?
Wayne
On 09/12/15 05:04 PM, Doug Schaefer wrote:
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Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Eierlegende Wollmilchsau
Is maybe the first step to make it look and act like everything
that's already on the tool bar?
The New Connection is what it would look like and -1 to that.
The issue is that you’re showing 16 pixel high images and text in a
combo boxes. You need at least two pixels of margin to make that look
good plus the border giving you 22 pixels high, right now there’s 5
pixels of margin height giving us more like 28 pixels. Given that
buttons are 32 pixels square, it’s a little unbalanced as it is. But
you can’t really have the buttons smaller than the combos. That would
look dumb.
Frankly, I like the idea of pushing the metaphors that we use and
challenging look and feel assumptions. I actually quite like the
look of the Launch Bar. It does, however, stand out like a sore
thumb.
You should have heard what the UX designers we were working with
though of the current Eclipse look and feel (a bunch of crazy Swedes
from Malmo :) ). They insisted that all images should be no smaller
than 32 pixel and all icons that you hardly use should be removed.
We’ve already toned down the original design. If you get a chance,
take a look at the first BlackBerry Momentics IDE that the launch bar
appeared in. When our product manager first showed it at a dev
conference, one of the audience members came up after and gave him a
hug thanking him for all the great work we’ve done to make it easier
to use. You know you’re doing something right when that happens.
The buttons need to be reactive.
Yup, I there’s a bug open on that already.
Wayne
On 09/12/15 04:32 PM, Doug Schaefer wrote:
It would be good to show it off and maybe it¹ll
spark in someone a way to make it not look like crap.
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