Re: [Epiphany] eog-menu-api Branch

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 05:46, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> 
> > I think that's a great interface for manipulating toolbars. One
> > semi-important thing here is to try and make the toolbar respond in
> > "realtime", so you don't just drag over the toolbar and have to drop in
> > some location, but the toolbar looks exactly how it would look if you
> > let go of the mouse at any given instant. This sort of feedback makes it
> > much easier to predict how the toolbar will look, and consequently helps
> > people use it faster.
> 
> I spent a lot of time trying to get this to work but I had to give up. I
> plan to retry though. Btw do you think drawing a line in the place where
> the item will be inserted would be a decent fallback solution ?
> Right now I'm just using the standard gtk behavior, the button over you
> are moving it's highlighted, but it's really unclear where the icon will
> be inserted this way I think.

Yeah, a line is a pretty good fallback.
> > 
> > One a side note, if its not a lot of extra work, a somewhat generic
> > framework that allows for this sort of editing would be very valuable to
> > a lot of applications.
> > 
> 
> Here we goes a bit better. There are still a few not generic minor
> details (like the configuration file path) but they should be easy to
> solve. The editor is just a ~1000 lines GObject, should not be hard to
> reuse in other applications.

Awesome!

-Seth