Re: [Usability] Alacarte UI

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 08:30 -0500, Travis Watkins wrote:
> On 4/26/06, Travis Watkins <alleykat gmail com> wrote:
> > Tried that idea, it looks a bit...broken. The dialog could probably be
> > a bit narrower but making it taller just makes it look weird.
> 
> On second though, here [1] is another try. I've added the up/down
> buttons back in, changed the size of the dialog, and put the menu/item
> treeviews in a GtkHPaned. My only concern now is whether or not this
> will work on 800x600. I know it won't on 640x480 but I don't think
> anyone uses that anymore.

The buttons at the top do look kind of like "a toolbar not implemented
properly", IMHO.  You could, perhaps, try having all the non-dialog
buttons (including your up/down ones) in the right-most column, i.e.
much like the Theme capplet does... it would make the window less tall
and probably not any wider, as the right-hand pane in your screenshot is
a good 50% wider than it probably needs to be by default.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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