Re: [Epiphany] Toolbar editor suggestions

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpeseng tin it>]

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 22:24, Seth Nickell wrote:
> Of course, this probably isn't implementable, but here's to hoping ;-)
> 
> http://beauty.stanford.edu/tbe-seth.png
> 
> The red highlighting really reduces the need to document the drag
> function because it makes it much more obvious where you are supposed to
> drag to. Dragging "out" of the toolbar is a little more tricky to figure
> out, but the label above the "tools box" should help clarify what you
> can and can't do.

Any reason the red box is only on the buttons ? Also location and
spinner are reorderable in current implementation.
I like the idea. I hope using a red box is not an accessibility problem
though, but I bet there is a way to solve that.

> I'm not sure how it would work, but I might also suggest having the red
> highlighting flash off and on once when you actually initiate a drag.
> That might be a bad thing, I'm not sure. In any case, I wouldn't worry
> about that at first.
> 
> I would also suggest, if it is possible, letting people drag tools out
> of the toolbar just by dragging them out and dropping them, not
> requiring them to return the tools to the Customize Toolbars box. I can
> imagine people never figuring out that removing tools requires dragging
> all the way over there.

I agree on this too (and hope it's possible to implement it).

Thanks for these suggestions Seth, they are very appreciated.

Marco