Re: low res desktops

[Christian Persch <chpe stud uni-saarland de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 16:02, kenneth topp wrote:
> > > 2) turning off, text below icons.  either text or icons, whichever.  
> > > cannot really do this on a gnome-wide basis, as I'm only familiar with
> > > the browser icons...
> > 
> > You can set this globally in GNOME control centre, "Menus & Toolbars"
> > dialogue.
> 
> but I'm only familiar enough (and find value in reducing vertical space) 
> of my web browser, not all of gnome apps..  no big deal.
Seems I overlooked most of what you wrote here :)
Having icon-only toolbars in epiphany only, not gnome-wide, is a planned
feature (there's even a bug already filed for it), it's just that nobody
has got around implementing it yet.

> > 
> > > 3) when the browser window is narrow, the toolbar throws some widgets into 
> > > a pulldown, but the Location text entry doesn't get rendered.
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> 
> 1) put the location text label just to the left of your throbber.
> 2) make your window as narrow as possible.  The Toolbar contents like 
> Home, Zoom, and Go move to this overflow dropdown (as there isn't 
> enough room to display.  The toolbar is smart enough not to drop the 
> throber down there.  It completely removes the location bar however...
Ah. Hmm...
The location entry is not _supposed to_ be relegated to the overflow
menu, it's supposed to shrink until it reaches its minimum size, and
then the window cannot be shrunk further. In fact, that's how it works
for me, no idea why it doesn't for you...
Furthermore, a menu item cannot represent any action the location entry
stands for, therefore it would be useless to have a menu item for it in
the overflow menu even if was possible to overflow it at all.

> As it turns out, my throbber displays nothing when there is no 
> action.  I'll have to figure out how to change the throbber as that's 
> silly.  (Perfect example: makes it very hard to remove it from the 
> toolbar if you cannot see it when you edit the toolbar)

Do I read this correctly as "when it's spinning I see it, but when no
page loads, it's not there"? If so, that's a severe bug in your theme.

Regards,
	Christian