Re: Integrated UI layers patch

["Fred Morcos" <fred morcos gmail com>]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Patrick Hallinan
<patrick j hallinan gmail com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 18:36 +0200, Fred Morcos wrote:
> > Just applied the patch. Looks good.
>
> thx.

No problem but just to clear out a - probable - misunderstanding, I am
not a Dia developer :) I applied the patch to my own tree and I liked
it.

> > Would be nice to have it resizable
> > though (you might want to get rid of the labels on the
> > add/up/down/delete buttons).
>
> I don't really know how to make it resizable.  I considered putting the
> diagram notebook and the layer view inside a horizontal pane but I
> didn't do anything more than consider it.  This isn't a manually
> resizable container widget that I know of.

What you considered is probably the right way to do it.

> I was thinking of making the layer view narrower by having two rows of
> buttons:
>
>  ------------------
>  | Add   | Delete |
> ï  ------------------
>  | Up    | Down   |
> ïï  ------------------
>
> But removing the labels would do the same thing.  Which would you
> prefer?

I think it's most logical to have it GIMP-like. I personally would go
for removing the labels.

> What do you think of renaming layer_dialog.* to layer_view.*?

A dev should answer that :)

> Pat.
>
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