Re: [Usability] Re: [Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME (Summit mockups)

[Michael Sweet <mike easysw com>]

Daniel F Moisset wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 11:32 -0800, Alex Graveley wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Carl Worth wrote:
> >  > PS. These side threads are entertaining, but I do hope we also get
> >  > back to Till's original list and we can all work together on designing
> >  > a good print dialog.
> >
> > To this effect, here are the mockups I made at the Boston GNOME Summit 
> > to point out some of the directions I/we were hoping to go with a GTK 
> > print dialog.
> >
> > Many things missing here... showing printer wait estimates, drop-down 
> > for saved settings if you have some, searchable chooser for networks 
> > with many printers, per-application custom controls, etc.
>
> Looks nice! But something I would change is the arrows for switching
> preview pages. Having to click 123 times in a row a button because I
> want to preview/select page 124 would be very frustrating.
>
> Perhaps the right widget to use there is a scrollbar? (it has the two
> buttons, it has page advance, and it has dragging to getting close to
> the desired value quickly)

Or just have a text field between the arrows that shows the current
page number and allows you to enter the new page number?  I doubt a
scroll bar that small would be very useful/accurate in selecting a
particular page...

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