Re: [Usability] [RFC] Gnumeric Cell Format dialog simplification approach

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:04:47PM +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> 
> > Subject: Re: [Usability] [RFC] Gnumeric Cell Format dialog simplification
> 
> 
> > > I believe there are stock icons for alignments, and they appear to be
> > > used in the toolbar buttons (for horizontal alignment), those should
> > > work.
> >
> > Two problems
> > 1) Some of the options are gnumeric (ms excel) specific and do not
> >     have icons
> >     eg
> > 	'center across selection'
> 
> Is that the same as "distribute evenly"?

Not really.  It's specific to spreadsheets.  It takes all empty
cells to the left and right that have the same alignment and centers
the content in that as if it were a single merged cell.

> > 2) There are no vertical alignment icons, only horizontal
> >     GTK_STOCK_JUSTIFY_CENTER
> >     GTK_STOCK_JUSTIFY_FILL
> >     GTK_STOCK_JUSTIFY_LEFT
> >     GTK_STOCK_JUSTIFY_RIGHT
> 
> It would be worth adding vertical alignment:  top; middle; bottom; fill.
> Dia would use them if they existed.  Would rotated versions of the
> existing icons be adequate or would it take a litte more effort than that?

rotation would not work, but having the icons would be nice.  I
suspect that abi probably already has some, as does
gnome-icon-theme.