Re: [Usability]preferred applications dialog

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

Hmm, those toggle buttons look really funny.  I don't recall seeing
toggle-buttons in many other places at all in the rest of core GNOME; I
think check boxes and radio boxes are a much better idea.

Also, one of the things that really annoyed my about the preferred
applications capplet (that I logged a bug for) is that the Terminal
application has a separate dialog for selecting the application, while
the rest just have the drop-down box.  There doesn't seem to be any good
reason for that.

On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 18:37, Sven Herzberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I tried to make the preferred apps dialog a bit nicer, so I made the
> following »improvements« (as I think they are improvements, but you may
> not ;).
> 
> 1. List
> =======
>   I removed the Notebook's tabs and it's frame but i added a List on the
> left to replace the tabs for navigation. It's got the following
> advantages:
> 
>   1. It's easier to have an overview over vertically aligned texts.
>   2. The list can be easily sorted alphabetically (even after
>      translation), which makes having an overview about the pages more
>      easy.
>   3. It's very easy to implement (it's already done in my local cvs
>      tree) and to extend.
> 
> 2. Web Browser
> ==============
>   I tried to HIGify the Web Browser Page, so i gave it the layout it
> currently [1] has. I think the page looks nice now and it is easy to
> have an overview. But I've got the following Problems:
> 
>    ToggleButtons:
>    I used the togglebuttons to replace the check- and radiobuttons from
>    the old dialog. They fit better into the HIG layout than the check-
>    and radiobuttons would do. (Although I'm not very happy with it, but
>    a little bit :)
> 
>    File Selector Widget:
>    I removed the GtkEntry for the custom command from the dialog and
>    replaced it temporarily with a GnomeFileEntry. Should this be kept?
>    And if yes, should we provide an additional GtkEntry for the command
>    line arguments?
> 
> [1] http://www.gnome-de.org/screenshots/defapps-1.png