Andreas' link to the Gnome HIG (v2.0) got me to send this mail...
While browsing the gnucash website for available documentation, I found that
the documentation page (http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml) still points to
version 1.0 of the HIG.
The links is found under the heading
Documentation Development -
Interesting links -
GNOME Human Interface Guidelines
Since GnuCash is now based on Gnome2, maybe this link should be updated as
well.
Regards,
Geert
On Monday 8 October 2007, Geert Janssens wrote:
Hi Andreas,
Thanks for committing my first patch !
As for the second, you are more then correct. I think your solution is way
more elegant. Please go for that one.
I still have a lot to learn about GUI development with gtk and glade. I
like it though, so when I find the time, I may dig into the gnome hig you
point to, and where possible make some more improvements.
Cheers,
Geert
On Monday 8 October 2007, Andreas Köhler wrote:
Hi Geert,
Am Mittwoch, den 03.10.2007, 23:54 +0200 schrieb Geert Janssens:
Based on some issues I encountered today with posting invoices (see
also the irc logs for more details), I have done some minor gui
improvements in the business dialogs. They don't solve my post problem
at the core (that would require more indepth programming knowledge),
but they help improve visibility.
1. The post dialog
Current situation: the information in the Post to account field is
not completely visible. Widening the dialog doesn't help, because the
field has a fixed with and doesn't expand.
New situation: when the dialog expands, the variable fields expand with
it. This allows for the Post to account to grow until the full
account text is visible.
Applied as r16555, together with a change to the newAccountButton to
make it non-expanding.
2. Search dialog
Current situation: sometimes when the search returns a lot of results,
a lot of scrolling is required to get to the desired result. Increasing
the size of the search dialog doesn't help, because the result part of
the dialog has a fixed height.
New situation: I have added a split pane widget (along with some
changes to keep the end result tidy). With this, the user can increase
the size of the result part independently from the search criteria
part. Currently, the search criteria part is about one criterium high.
This can still be changed if needed.
Hm. From my point of view a viewport inside a scrolledwindow inside an
expandingfilling frame inside an vpaned is overkill :-D
What do you think about something along the lines of the attached diff?
It removes the scrolledwindow and viewport, makes the frame
non-expanding and puts the type of search to the bottom. If you add
search criteria the results widget is simply made smaller.
I have attached two diff files (generated with svn diff) for the
affected glade files.
I hope you guys find the modifications useful.
Thank you a lot for your work! If you have the time and want to help
us, the business dialogs need a lot of hig[1] love :-)
-- andi5
[1] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/
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