[Usability]Re: Toolbar editor

[mpeseng tin it]

>-- Messaggio originale --
>Subject: Re: Toolbar editor
>From: Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>
>To: gtk-devel-list gnome org
>Date: 26 Mar 2003 12:56:16 +0000
>
>
>On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 11:02, mpeseng tin it wrote:
>
>> is there any plan to have a toolbar editor based on EggMenu in libegg
?
>
>Do we even have any user requirements for such a thing yet?  Most people
>just don't edit their toolbars however easy you make it, so I'd imagine
>it's pretty important to find out who does, why, and in what sort of
>applications, before designing such a comparatively complex thing.
>

Toolbar items costumization is listed as a requirement in the Toolbars section
of the HIG and it's part of the toolbar GEP.
I was assuming it was a Good Thing ;)

Some random thoughts.
(I'm ccing usability list, guess that's the best place to discuss it)

A possible use case:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80363

In a web browser I prefer to keep one toolbar with only a few items(Back,
Forward, Reload, Stop, Location), while other users prefer to have two toolbars
with more items like Bookmarks, History ...
This appear to be also the difference of IE/Mozilla layout.
I'm not sure if one of these layouts can be considered just bad, it appears
like a matter of user preference to me ...

In general I feel the ability to have only the more often used actions on
the toolbar (and I guess "more often used" depends on user preferences)
good for usability because you can find more easily the items you need.

Anyway I'm hoping the usability team make a clear decision about this. If
it's considered not useful, I'm not going to complain too much, less work
to do ;)

Marco