On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:13:20PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > Amipro had wonderful user-configurable toolbars.
We (or at least Qt) can easily do hanging icon menus from toolbar items. > I'm not sure custom > panels are really going to be that useful -- except as an interim > solution until mutliple/rolling/custom toolbars are available -- as > they'll be fiddly to setup and then require two clicks to select. A Not in the GUI I'm thinking of. Basically the icon menu could hang off a toolbar item, be its own dialog, or whatever. > custom toolbar would only require 1 click and offer the possibility of > keyboard bindings based on toolbar icon position (as an extension of > binding some arbitrary key sequence to "self-insert ding123" for > example). sure > The bottom of the menu has one of these "�" pointing downwards which > you have to click to reveal the extra entries. In some cases it seems > to expose only two or three extra entries and to make things worse > these extra entries usually get entered somewhere within the existing > drop-down not just tacked on the end. I've never liked these even in dialogs, where they have a much greater justification. In menus just sounds lame. > Fortunately there is a > configuration option to disable this lame-brained idea... but you have > to search to find it by clicking on a few of those "�". hilarious :) Sounds very much like the "o Don't suck" pref Havoc talks about : http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.html And certain LyX preferences that have recently fallen by the wayside >:) > Or getting someone like you or Rob to reorganise the menu order into > something useful? But I suppose they have their baggage they have to > carry around: word 2 had a X menu that included an entry for Y, so Y > should always be under X even though we now have another menu Z that > is more appropriate. I tried to use word a few years ago. The toolbars took up half the screen. I could barely use it ... regards john -- "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." - Aristotle
