Re: [Usability] Alacarte UI

["Travis Watkins" <alleykat gmail com>]

On 4/26/06, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Ok, I decided to remove the up/down buttons and move those 3 buttons
over to the right hand side. The new dialog [1] is 50px shorter and
just as wide as before. I think this is about as good as it gets but
I'm still open to suggestions.

[1] http://www.realistanew.com/random/alacarte-dialog3.png

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