Re: [Evolution-hackers] component information area.

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 17:20 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> Hows this stuff look:
> 
> http://primates.ximian.com/~notzed/test/ui/
> 
> Took me a while to work out how to do a few things, hence all the tries.
> I gave up on the multiple-alternate smaller-text idea for now.  The last
> one (-5) is probably the closest to what we want (although some others
> are exactly the same height as the search bar).
> 
> Tweaks to layout (i.e. borders etc)?  Any hig insights on this?
> 
> Or should i just commit and 'work it out later'.
> 
> The api is really simple, you create it (telling it what icon to use)
> and pack it with 0 padding into a vbox which contains your folder tree,
> then call set_info(location, info) to set the location (i.e. folder
> name) and extra info, whenever it changes.  It uses a clipped label for
> the location but a normal gtk label for the other info.
> 
> Does the icon need to change (i.e. to match the folder type), or should
> it remain static (i.e. to match the component type) - i think the latter
> is best (and what it does now).

This is pretty sweet.  The only thing I'm worried about is that
generally the calendar can require a fair bit of space to express the
date so we might need some implementation of the alternate text format
there, but this would be specific to the calendar.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
Novell, Inc.