RE: UI suggestion: gnome-dock

["Zailo Leite" <zleite earthlink net>]

I made a similar request some time ago, actually... as well as the ability
to edit menus and toolbars. Yep, I hate to admit but Microsoft got it right
with IE and Word2K UI's...

Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Warkus [mailto:mawarkus@t-online.de]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 7:55 PM
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: UI suggestion: gnome-dock
>
>
> +++ Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 08:33:56PM -0500 +++
> br0ke@math.smsu.edu e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now,
> after the break.
> > I know that gnome can scale images, why not have the ability to
> have small
> > toolbar icons? mebbe a global conf in gnomecc that sets the
> default toolbar
> > behavior to "big" (normal sized) or "small" (scaled to menubar
> height, keeping
> > the ratio of width to height tho), and if a "big" toolbar is
> pulled onto a
> > menubar, then it's set as "small" (but just in that single
> contect, not a global
> > change). Some people like big toolbars, some people like small
> ones, and some
> > people probably want the ability to pull the toolbar onto the menu.
> >
> > communicator style toolbar 'folding' would be cool to include
> generically, too,
> > for both toolbars and menus.
>
> Sounds exactly like the right kind of suggestion for Jim Cape's new
> Gnome UI Improvement project. http://www.jcinteractive.com/gnome-ui/
>
> > >       That's true about mixing menubars with toolbars, but
> what about 2
> > toolbars?
> > > And what about changing their order?
> > >
> >
> > if 2 toolbars can change places (which I think they should be
> able to), then I
> > think we should be able to do it wiht a single grab/slide, much
> like moving
> > applets and launchers on the panel (if switched movement is
> chosen). Yeah, I
> > know this is how IE does it, but I think it's a fairly easy
> handy way, sorry
>
> Just that MS does it doesn't mean it's wrong.
>
> mawa
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