Re: toolbar

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 00:42, Dave wrote:
    a few quick issues:
    1. The toolbar layout for nautilus2 looks a bit untidy when toolbar
    layout is set to "text below icons" (all buttons are different widths)
    the patch attached fixes that, but makes it look bad when "priority text
    beside icons" is selected. (The min_width="48" used to be there, but was
    removed when priority text was added - if that's going to be the default
    then it would be best to leave it as it is) of course ideally someone
    eould think of a way to make it look tidy with both layouts

This is not a thing Nautilus should worry about, but rather a matter of
Gtk/Gnome toolbars in general. So (even though I am not a
programmer-kind of a developer) it seems wrong to "fix" it here.

But in general, the hardcoded min_width that used to be there was very
annoying for "toolbars without labels" use, since the padding was simply
huge, and it made it impossible to have small tidy toolbars with just
icons - which works a lot better currently. So it was not just removed
for priority text stuff.

Having a hardcoded spacing makes the toolbars unneccessarily wide which
is a unfortunate thing. Having the buttons get their sizes individually
from the label (or from the icon, whichever is wider) uses the toolbar
space more effeciently, though I do understand your point in the search
for evenly spaced beauty :-) But honestly, I dont think it is that bad.
It makes it better in practice when your buttons fit on the toolbars
without resizing the windows.
    

    3. Drop down menus for back/forward at the expense of right click menus.
    Every other program i have seen that has the drop down menu also allows
    you to right click the back button to get the same menu, i know some
    people don't like right clicking so it does make sense to have the
    visible drop down menu but why remove the right click functionality?
    could it be re-added? (there is still a right click menu on the zoom
    control)

I guess the right click on the "Back" button could open the dropdown? Is
this possible to do in gtk?

Tuomas
     

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