Re: [Usability]toolbar issues

[Daniel F Moisset <dmoisset arnet com ar>]

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 13:01, usability-request gnome org wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> At the moment the Galeon and Nautilus toolbars have a rightclick popup
> menu on the back, up, and forward buttons. While this is very useful,
> it's not very obvious that it's there. Also it has a lot of
> implementation problems, like bonoboui not really supporting rightclick
> stuff on toolbar buttons and stuff like that.
> IMHO Gnumeric and AbiWord solved this much better by having an arrow
> butotn next to their undo/redo buttons which drops down a list of
> possible actions. See http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/dropdown.png.
> That way it's clear it's there, and there are no implementation
> problems.
> 
> Personally I would love to see that in both Nautilus and Galeon. I'm
> writing the Galeon toolbar code, but I could also make a patch for
> Nautilus if people are interested ...

There's no need to start coding; the feature you want is already there.
If you go to Settings|Preferences|User Interface|Toolbar you will get a
toolbar editor where, among the things you can put in the toolbar, there
are "back history" and "forward history" buttons. Just adding them
besides the back and fforward buttons will do what you want.

Perhaps it should be a default (I think it is in Mandrake's galeon), and
perhaps it is important to add something in the HIG about right click on
toolbars... I'll leave that to the UI experts here

	Daniel

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