Re: A matter of principle [Re: HIGification of dialog boxes]

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

Le Fri, Jul 18, 2003, à 07:28:31PM +0100, Alan Horkan a écrit:

> > Hello? That's not what I said. My point was: the instant-apply thing where
> Stop you right there.  Sorry, the rant wasn't aimed at you are any of the

OK. My apologies. Will make one of these floating widgets fizzle in its
intended surrounding liquid in your name.


> > In fact, I'm pondering about a nice hack to have the toolbox take less space
> > on the screen and still remain usable -- I'm just not so sure of how
> > gtk-win32 would behave.
> 
> Being able to go fullscreen would provide more space.

Yes, fullscreen is very useful. Alt-Tab sucks when you use one every other
action (though I then tend to make a "private toolbox" in a corner of my
diagram and then copy&paste).

> In fullscreen mode you could have an autohide menu maybe?

That I think is what I describe with the cm² trick, unless I misunderstand
you again...

> > [cm² toplevel toolbox²]
> > What would the usability folks think about that?
> 
> Not sure.  I doubt I would like it but it might work.

I'll try to cook up something during the second half of August, if nobody
beats me to it.
 
> If you want to use the Menubar but also want to be able to toggle it more
> easily would you consider adding a menu item for it and a keybinding.

Makes a lot of sense and should be trivial to do. Any takers?

	-- Cyrille

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