On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:45, Ross Burton wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:22, Hans Petter Jansson wrote: > > I think I'd prefer 2x2 myself, with all buttons the same size. If we > > want to be fancy, we could also make text labels be optional (like the > > choice you get for typical browser toolbars), and then we could probably > > fit all of them on one row :) > > > > I probably value desktop space more highly than other users, though. > > I'm a screen-estate junkie myself, and think that following the gconf > key for toolbar state is probably a good idea -- i.e. label only, icon > only, both. > > Personally my folder tree is quite wide (several nested IMAP folders) so > 2x2 would be a better choice for me, or as Hans says just use icons and > might all fit.
I was thinking of the same myself - even though it is not a toolbar, what if it followed the toolbar labels/icons/whatever settings of the user? On the other hand, if we have an uneven number of buttons we dont want a grid layout, since then you'd get an empty space. So if that is the case, we need to figure something. Anyway, an example at this point: http://primates.ximian.com/~tigert/evo/evo-buttons-mockup3.gif The screen-estate junkies will love the "icons only" -mode. The only problem is the text-below-icons since it is in a grid. Putting it into a column wastes a huge amount of vertical space, and putting it horizontally wont fit (at least with Finnish labels (S�hk�posti / Osoitekirja / Kalenteri / �-Mappi) :) - so I dunno. I am kind of pleased with the simplicity of the single-row and single-column versions. And there is no need to worry about the number of icons either.. What if the button-pane was resizeable, and if one resizes the vertical text-besides-icons list to a small one, it would at one point switch to a horizontal line of plain icons without labels? Like the animation example but without the 2x2 grid frame. Tuomas -- Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
