[Glade-devel] Re-ordering the glade-3 palette

[e98cuenc yahoo com (Joaquin Cuenca Abela)]

--- Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 22:03 +0100, Joaquin Cuenca
> Abela wrote:
> > There was an old alternative layout in glade-2
> that separated widgets in:
> > Toplevel widgets
> > Containers
> > Standard widgets
> > Data entry
>
> While this seems an obvious way to split the
> catalogs, I'm not sure this
> categorization works very well wrt to usability: the
> user would have to
> change the "page" of the palette a lot more since
> even the simplest
> dialog has at least 1 toplevel, 1 containers and
> some buttons).

Very good point.

> I'd prefer if all the commonly used widgets (window,
> [vh]boxes, buttons,
> etc) are kept on the first page as they are now.

Ok, I will try to categorize as:

Base
Dialogs
Advanced
Obsolete

Dialogs are usually fully constructed (file chooser
dialog, the color chooser dialog, etc), so you don't
have to go back to base to pick additional widgets.

We can also name obsolete "Miscellaneous", and put
there the rulers, the color chooser, etc.

If we pass some widgets from base to advanced (the
layout, drawing area), we should be able to slim a bit
base, yet retaining there the most used widgets.

I'm still fully open to suggestions...

Cheers,


=====
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc at yahoo dot com

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