Would you mind sending us what Gedit looks like on your computer ?
I would like to see the difference between what you see and your
suggestions.
Also, it's more useful for us to know what kind of changes you have
in mind. Like I said before, the visual appearance of gedit is
largely dependent on the theme that is used, more than which
functional components (widgets) are used. One thing I'm seeing is
for example that you use a combo box instead of tabs.
It would be good if you can provide the following:
1) What elements did you change, independent from changes in the
theme
2) What is the rationale for changing these elements, and what
analysis/data do you base this on
3) Is this something very specific to gedit, or are you proposing
these changes also GNOME wide
4) Are you in any way in discussion also with other GNOME designers
to ensure a unified look for all GNOME applications (meaning, is
this part of some kind of new HIG)
User interfaces are delicate. We are more than happy to improve on
anything, but we do need more than just 'this looks better to me'
kind of argumentation.
Jesse
Regards,
Zarmakuizz
Le 03/02/2011 21:37, Jesse van den Kieboom a écrit :
I'm unable to send to the list, so kindly do forward for
me.
What I had in mind was just a small UI redesign. Not
removal of features - I'm really sorry guys understood me
wrongly. I managed to do some UI in glade and I have attached
the screenshots of it.
Regards,
Kennedy Kasina
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Jesse
van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>
wrote:
On 02/01/2011 02:54 PM, Kennedy Kasina
wrote:
Hi All,
I just joined the list and hence quit a new
member here. I was checking out Gedit the other
day and had Nautilus open right next to it and it
made me wonder, why can we get a unified look at
feel across Gnome. Gedit struck me first and I
wanted to propose whether some UI redesign can be
done to achieve something close to screenshot
attached.
These things are mostly theming issues, and not so much
gedit UI related. If you have a look at gedit there is
not all that much UI anyway. Also, if you want to have a
unified result, you should not really change all
individual applications to match. Maybe I don't
understand exactly what you would like to change (I'm
not really familiar with the theme of your screenshot,
or what gedit looks like in that theme). Does it tweak
things specifically for Nautilus?
Secondly in the redesign, doing away with the
file browser tab. Its a Text Editor for sure so no
need repeat some make feature which are availed by
other apps that are purposefully designed for
that.
The way these things work is that the gnome desktop
does/did not provide any convenient way to really work
on a project. Sure, you can have a nautilus window open
next to your gedit window, but there is no way that this
is really convenient (for example, maybe you need to
move your text editor a bit out of the way for some
other window, you keep reorganizing your windows). So,
to improve a workflow, you add plugins to the text
editor, and voila.
As nacho pointed out, you can always disable this
plugin, no problem. We will hopefully see that with
gnome shell, file management gets easier and the need
for a filebrowser plugin will be less. Personally, I
found the filebrowser taking away too much space and
also the need to use the mouse was annoying. Thus we
designed Quick open (I never use filebrowser anymore).
I have more thoughts in mind and I shall share
them with you.
Regards,
Kennedy Kasina
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