why not just put the buttons at the top, if thats all you're worried about? seems to waste a lot of space otherwise, since i for one dont have a tall window. the spacing around the buttons already waste enough space :(
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:34 -0800, Chris Toshok wrote: > Now this is motivated strictly by my own experience, but I can't imagine > it being an uncommon one, so here goes. > > It seems we need some better visual cue for which component is active. > We have the toggle buttons, but this isn't where the eye is drawn when > looking at the sidebar, particularly if you have few folders and a tall > window. Since all components have an "On This Computer" group at the > top, it's even more confusing. > > Sooo, I propose we put back something like the gray title bar, only not > showing the currently selected folder - just showing the currently > active component. And limit it to just the sidebar area. > > Here's an example: > > http://www.hungry.com/~toshok/images/upper-visual-cue.png > > We should have the component's icon up there as well, and of course it > should be layed out a bit better, and probably be slightly larger text > to differentiate it from the text in the source selector, etc. > > thoughts? > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
