On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 16:18 +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Juan Pablo Ugarte > <juanpablouga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, I am trying to polish the Glade UI and one of the goals is to > > make better use of vertical space in the property editor so we can fit > > more properties at the same time. > > > > There are a few modification in 3.15 as mention in my blog post > > > > https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2013/03/06/glade-drag-drop-support > > > > But now I am playing a little bit more and choose a somewhat unorthodox > > layout for the UI I basically took out the inspector/property editor out > > of the hierarchy and put it on a side so that it can take the whole > > vertical space of the window (no more wasted space by the menu and tool > > bar) > > > > https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/files/2013/03/glade_new_layout.png > > > > I must say it looks odd at the beginning but after a few minutes it gets > > better :) > > > > What do you guys think? > > Hi Juan, > I don't think it's a good idea at all to "chop" the menubar/toolbar off the > way you did (it looks so unnatural and it's so non-standard that I can't > agree with it) *but* perhaps something can be salvaged from this...
Yeah I know I would not either, I was just playing and wanted to share it. I got to tell that having the UI made with glade makes it very easy to play with it! heheh but what I was trying to do was move the status bar under the workspace, but that also looks bad. > One thing that I find interesting about this experiment is that, perhaps > it could be nice to place the <search widgets> entry in the toolbar aligned > to the right hand side (this would save vertical space from the inspector & Yes that would be good! > property editor zone without creating this really weird interface, also it > would be a natural place to put the search entry I think, similar to firefoxes > search entry and not so far off from where Glade originally had it). > > Also, I still really don't like what you've done to the "Docs" and "Clear" > buttons, they should really be implemented as contextual "actions" > and automatically appear in the context menu (as the Docs already > does) or optionally in the toolbar (perhaps the "Docs" button should > also appear in the toolbar). Well you can set the default value from the property editor contextual menu, but adding a clear properties context menu item sounds even better than adding an item to the toolbar. > I think that we can remove the "Clear" button completely, I think > I recall Vincent Geddes arguing the same thing; the "Clear" button > is probably never used. > > So I would prescribe: > a.) Remove the "Clear" button altogether > b.) Make sure the "Read Documentation" feature is implemented > as an action, and make it "important" so that it also shows > up in the toolbar. Yup, sounds good! greets JP _______________________________________________ Glade-devel maillist - Glade-devel@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/glade-devel
