Re: [evolution-patches] fix for 57653 : toolbar visibility

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 10:34 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 16:48 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Here is a patch that enables the toolbar to be hidden.
> >>
> >>Please let me know if this looks ok?
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure this is something we want to do given that the tool bars
> > follow the GNOME settings now.
> > 
> > Product design?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The toolbar icon/text style follows the GNOME wide settings (except for 
> the New button).  However, one of the other GNOME interface guidelines 
> is overall toolbar visibility.
> 
>  From <http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/toolbars.html>:
> 
> "Allow toolbars to be turned on and off in your application's 
> Preferences dialog and by using the View->Toolbar menu item. If there is 
> more than one toolbar, they are turned on and off by individual entries 
> in the View->Toolbar submenu."
> 
> Viewing the month view of the calendar with the toolbar, search bar, and 
> sidebar hidden is a data-centric thing of beauty.

One more thing, the accelerator conflicts (at least in the calendar).

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
Novell, Inc.