Re: Redesigned initial dialog

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 16:24 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> I just committed a first version of a redesigned initial dialog to Glom
> trunk. There is a screenshot at [1]. It is currently very similar to
> Murray's proposal [2].
> 
> I think that it would be better, UI-wise, to only use one treeview for
> both types of actions. Normally, you are only interested in either
> opening an existing document or a new document (but not both), so you
> need only one of the views anyway.

Maybe a notebook would be a good solution.

>  But when you resize the dialog, to
> view more items at once, half the space is wasted for the other
> treeview. If all actions were in a single treeview, then you would only
> expand the branch you are interested in, giving all extra space to those
> items.
> 
> The actions already make clear enough whether they open an existing
> document or create new one, IMHO.

I'm not convinced. I think it's good to make it very clear what will be
the creation of a new document and what will be the opening an existing
document. The examples need this extra hint, because they start creation
instead of just opening.

I think I would like to add a [Select] button to the right of [Close],
which would do the action on the selected row in the selected treeview,
because it's hard to know that I can click on those row buttons.
[Select] is not ideal, but it's better than [Create or Open depending on
what you clicked on].

And the dialog should close as soon as something has been clicked. I
don't think that the dialog->run() ever returns at the moment, and I
don't think that the response is really used.

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