[Usability]Re: toolbar issues

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 19 May 2002, Jorn Baayen 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 ...

Yeah. I'd love this. We're in a UI freeze, but perhaps we can get this one 
thing past the release team. Hopefully it fixes the stupid 
theme-background fuckup on the forward and back buttons too.
 
> Another thing with the Nauti toolbar is that it uses it's own theming
> stuff, i think we shouldn't do that in Gnome 2 since stock icons can now
> be themed. (And we can register app-specific icons with the stock
> system, so that they can be themed as well). Also it would be nice if
> some of the buttons had priority. (ie text beside icons, if requested in
> the toolbar capplet). I can do a patch for this stuff as well, if there
> is interest.

We already removed all customly themed toolbars from Nautilus. Darin 
didn't want to remove the feature completely. I don't care much, so i 
defer to Darins decision.

I personally think text on toolbars is crack. Especially on only some of 
the items. If the user enables crack perhaps we should give it to him 
though.

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