Re: [Usability] Alacarte UI

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 25 Apr 2006, at 22:24, Travis Watkins wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The current alacarte UI [1] mixes application and dialog interfaces.
> I'd like to make it a dialog but that seems to make adding features
> like undo/redo and cut/copy/paste impossible. There is just no where
> to put the buttons for all that. To make it an application I'd have to
> drop the bottom row of buttons and add a toolbar.

I'm not sure that you'd /need/ to add a toolbar... it's not a  
prerequisite for an application to have a toolbar.  It would probably  
be fine just to drop the three dialog buttons, and make sure all the  
functions were available on the menus.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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