[Usability]Re: toolbar issues

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 22 May 2002, Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi Alex,
> 
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 17:59, Alex Larsson wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > 	Guys, it's _Really_ unclear to me how the vague proposal above "having
> > > an arrow button next to their undo/redo buttons ..." actually maps to
> > > any concrete proposal whatsoever.
> > 
> > Did you look at the more concrete patch that implemented it?
> 
> 	Nope, didn't see it.
> 
> 	Incidentally the whole point of that 'fuckup' is that if you want funky
> functionality, you have to put it in the toolbar as a control -
> otherwise you just busted the whole point of the interface, and it'll
> never work out of proc. Thus the API forces you to do it right.

The busted part is the background of the widget not being lined up with 
the parents background, thus looking bad. And this still happens with 
jorns patch. This may be solvable by getting all widgets involved to have 
parent-relative backgrounds.  

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