Hi Doug,

I happen to have a patch for that [1]. I had to redo the graphics, so they are 
a bit different:



Best regards,
Torkild

[1] https://github.com/Itema-as/org.eclipse.launchbar/tree/dawn


> 10. des. 2015 kl. 03.39 skrev Doug Schaefer <[email protected]>:
> 
> If the toolbar buttons could resize up to 24 pixels, say, then we probably 
> wouldn't have an issue. We could make them all the same size and leave enough 
> margin for things to look good. Making them smaller than 16 pixels will make 
> them even more useless.
> 
> I'm going to try and bring things down to 24 pixel and see what it looks 
> like. Might not be as much of a shock.
> 
> BTW, please raise bugs and we can discuss this in bugzilla. Right now we're 
> in CDT component cdt-other, until I find a better home for it.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback all. Much appreciated and food for thought.
> Doug.
> 
> From: Wayne Beaton <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed Dec 09 2015 17:10:22 GMT-0500 (EST)
> To: [email protected] 
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Eierlegende Wollmilchsau
> 
> 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:
>> 
>> From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Wayne 
>> Beaton <[email protected]>
>> Organization: The Eclipse Foundation
>> Reply-To: Cross project issues <[email protected]>
>> Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 4:44 PM
>> To: "[email protected]" 
>> <[email protected]>
>> 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.
>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Wayne Beaton
>> @waynebeaton
>> The Eclipse Foundation
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