[HIG] [Bug 70976] Changed - Vertical toolbars should be mentioned in the HIG

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Changed by snickell stanford edu 

--- shadow/70976	Wed Mar  6 12:31:02 2002
+++ shadow/70976.tmp.32402	Thu Mar  7 17:12:20 2002
@@ -22,6 +22,21 @@
 I added a note on vertical toolbars at:
 http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/toolbars.html#vertical-toolbars
 
 However much I tried, though, the best advice I could come up with is
 "it's almost always better not to use them" :)  If anyone has some
 better advice, feel free to comment....
+
+------- Additional Comments From snickell stanford edu  2002-03-07 17:12 -------
+It was pretty trivial to remove the vertical toolbar from
+GnomeMeeting. It had far far far more toolbar items than it needed.
+Not sure its a very good example. 
+
+Actually, not sure there are any good examples, because my personal
+feeling is that we should avoid the "toolbar bloat" ala Microsoft
+Office. At some point toolbars lose their usefulness because they have
+too many items, and you might as well encourage menu use instead and
+leave the toolbar for the truly common items.
+
+If the user wants to turn on 20 toolbars and make some of them
+vertical, they can go right ahead, but I don't think applications
+should have more than one or two, toolbars visible by default.