Re: [Nautilus-list] Toolbar consistency for Nautilus and Galeon

[David Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

File a hig bug...

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 13:00, Shane Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
> Here's something that's been bugging me:
> 
> At this url: 
> <http://www-personal.umich.edu/~smueller/galnaut.png> you can see a
> screen-shot with the toolbars of both Galeon and Nautilus juxtaposed.
> Would it be possible to get someone from the Gnome usability team to recommend
> and arbitrate a consistent layout for these toolbars across both apps?
> I'm especially talking about whether "up" (which is optional in Galeon)
> should go between forward and back, or to the right (as it is in Nautilus),
> and whether "stop" should go on the outside of the other buttons, 
> or directly next to the navigation buttons. 
> 
>  There are other differences as well (which don't bother me much, but
> others might care), such as (1)location of the location bars (which is
> selectable in Galeon), (2) grouping separators, (3) the location/style
> of the zoom control, (4)Drop-down history list in location window
> (5)Drop down arrows in forward/backward buttons.(6) How Galeon's toolbar
> takes up more space as a consequence of drop-down arrows (at least when
> text captions are turned on).  (7) Presence of mini-icon identifier near
> location window. (8) "Reload" vs "Refresh". (9) The "Location:" text in 
> Nautilus.
> 
>  FWIW, the current  HIG at 
> <http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/hig-0.1/toolbars.html>
> states: "Similarly, the first few buttons in a browser application
> should alway [sic] include Back, Forward, Stop and Reload, in that order."
> This doesn't  mention "Up", and makes a recommendation about "Stop" that
> neither of these apps follow.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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