Re: A dozen of new patches to test!

[Christopher Bratusek <nano-master gmx de>]

Am Montag, den 18.08.2008, 22:22 +0200 schrieb GSR - FR:
> [Sorry for slow reply]
>
> Hi,
> ferkiwi gmail com (2008-08-09 at 0254.05 +0200):
> > >  Also, be wary of adding
> > > defcustoms: usability will go downhill as clutter increases.  If
> > > someone would write a better sawfish-ui with a decent search function
> > > for options, then we could add defcustoms to our hearts' content, but
> > > not with the current UI.
> > Yes, I was also thinking that sawfish-ui really needs some love.
> > Maybe a simpler and nice approach could be to have somewhere an option like
> > "show advanced options" ..or even have a choice of different levels (basic,
> > advanced and full) and use classes to show only the ones with selected
> > levels.
>
> IIRC that was the case, and it was removed as nobody manages to choose
> the right level for every user. It happens with other apps too... in
> the end, if you want to be sure you are not missing anything, you
> select highest. Not very useful in the end.
>
> GSR
>  

I just found out that sawfish-ui has two modes, one with a treeview (unreachable without modifying the code)
and the one that is currently default. Perhaps this might help us.

Screenshot of sawfish-ui with treeviews (+ serveral new options + sub-tabs re-ordered):

http://www.nanolx.org/other/sawfish-ui-retry-mockup.png

the current behaviour can then be reached by running "sawfish-ui --flatten"

diff of my local version to current trunk (just in case you want to have it):

http://www.nanolx.org/other/sawfish.patch

Chris

GNOME/Sawfish rule!

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