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Re: [evince] Adding toolbar buttons in evince 3.8


Adding the evince list back to the thread.

 Jiří, please, keep the list in the CC when replying.
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Jiří Vyskočil <svzj centrum cz> writes:


The initial design had those in the toolbar indeed, but designers
removed them because it was difficult to design new symbolic icons for
some of the options. Would it solve the problem for you to add keyboard
shortcuts for all those options?



Sort of - I will have to use the keyboard, but usually when I'm reading 
a lot of papers, I only use the mouse, so selecting from the menu might 
still be better option for now.

Are there any plans to reintroduce customizable toolbars? Any thread 
about this issue worth watching?


No, there aren't plans to allow customize the toolbar at the moment. 


BTW, what was wrong with the old icons? Their meaning seemed pretty 
obvious to me.


The toolbar looks nicer with the symbolic icons. In previous versions of
evince we had 2 different dual page modes, dual with even pages left and
dual with odd pages left. We had the same icon for both modes, which
doesn't work when they are in the toolbar, see:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~carlosgc/ev-page-selector.png

It's very difficult to represent both dual modes with an icon and even
more using a symbolic icon, so we decided to move the options to the
view menu. See bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687931

In the end I ended up merging the two dual modes and making "odd pages
left" an option only available when dual page mode is active, so the
previous design would look like this:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~carlosgc/ev-toolbar-symbolic.png

I like this design (using symbolic icons of course), it reduces the size
of the view menu and it's consistent with nautilus toolbar. So we could
move back to this. The problem is that there's a new layout mode,
automatic, which is not exposed in the UI yet. Three buttons might be
too much, we don't want to clutter the toolbar, and designing an icon
for the automatic layout could be difficult too.

The automatic layout is just another special option of the single/dual page in
the end, it changes between single and dual depending on the zoom
level. So we could leave the two buttons, and have an option in the view
menu for the automatic layout, keeping the single/dual button updated
(toggled/untoggled) when the layout is changed automatically. Clicking
on the single/dual button in the toolbar would disable the automatic mode.

What do you guys think?

PS. I'm adding some designers to the CC.



Jiri


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