Re: [Usability] Can't Handle it anymore! (Consistent toolbars?)

[Samuel Abels <newsgroups debain org>]

On Wed, 2005-30-03 at 23:25 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> I was looking at non gtk program the other day that had it.  It wasn't any
> less useless than having it on toolbar and if you can overlay toolbars or
> put them end to end it helps to include it.

Well, putting toolbars end to end is currently not possible inside the
window (or I couldn't figure out how), but right, if that is supported
then may be there is some use for this. Still, I believe it will be used
too rarely.

> > What could make them more useful?
> 
> If toolbars could be docked, layed out end to end.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111509
> 
> The abscence of this functionality means applications like abiword have
> little choice to have one huge toolbar rather than break it up into
> smaller toolbars.

Good idea. That would make them useful, especially because it is great
for applications that have many buttons depending on the target
audience.

> I've read complaints about Adobe Acrobat reader for Linux not using
> standard GTK widgets for their toolbars but the abscence of this
> functionality but I cannot say I blame them.  I'm sure the desire to have
> their toolbars work similarly on all platforms and an unwillingness to
> sacrifice the more flexible behaviour is part of the reason for it.  If
> the toolbar behaves exactly the same as the version of Acrobat Reader 6
> did on Windows you will notice that non priority items get hidden if the
> toolbar is short of space (things like the zoom drop down and various text
> labels) which is kind of neat.

Agreed.

-Samuel
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