On Wed, 2005-30-03 at 23:25 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > I was looking at non gtk program the other day that had it. It wasn't any > less useless than having it on toolbar and if you can overlay toolbars or > put them end to end it helps to include it.
Well, putting toolbars end to end is currently not possible inside the window (or I couldn't figure out how), but right, if that is supported then may be there is some use for this. Still, I believe it will be used too rarely. > > What could make them more useful? > > If toolbars could be docked, layed out end to end. > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111509 > > The abscence of this functionality means applications like abiword have > little choice to have one huge toolbar rather than break it up into > smaller toolbars. Good idea. That would make them useful, especially because it is great for applications that have many buttons depending on the target audience. > I've read complaints about Adobe Acrobat reader for Linux not using > standard GTK widgets for their toolbars but the abscence of this > functionality but I cannot say I blame them. I'm sure the desire to have > their toolbars work similarly on all platforms and an unwillingness to > sacrifice the more flexible behaviour is part of the reason for it. If > the toolbar behaves exactly the same as the version of Acrobat Reader 6 > did on Windows you will notice that non priority items get hidden if the > toolbar is short of space (things like the zoom drop down and various text > labels) which is kind of neat. Agreed. -Samuel -- ------------------------------------------------------ | Samuel Abels | http://www.debain.org | | spam ad debain dod org | knipknap ad jabber dod org | ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
