thanks for the input! we are staying now with the space and the appearing of the scrollbar if more thumbnails are added. of course you wont see double arrows, that was just in that screenshot as i posted before. thanks! daniel On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 23:46 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > On 11 Aug 2008, at 20:40, daniel g. siegel wrote: > > > > see screen1.jpg, there is much place left (where the red marked box > > is). > > if there are enough items in it, scrolling gets activated and it looks > > like screen2.jpg (please ignore the other red marks and duplicate > > arrows). > > > > now, is it better to show the scrollbar always or to live with the > > space? > > Well, those screenshots don't really offer a fair comparison, because > they doesn't show what the scrollbar would show if there was only > thumbnail :) (From the behaviour of other apps, though, I'd assume it > shows the scrollbar shaft taking up the full width of the scrollbar...?) > > Personally I prefer to see the empty space than an "unscrollable" > scrollbar-- it gives you immediate feedback that you're seeing > everything that there is to see. In an ideal world, perhaps the > visual appearance of a "full" scrollbar would be less intrusive than > it is today[1]-- maybe something to think about for gtk 3.0 :) > > (As an aside, I'm slightly confused as to why you still have left and > right buttons either side of the thumbnail view, in addition to those > in the scrollbar? That sends rather mixed messages to the user, > perhaps suggesting that they would do different things.,,) > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > [1] E.g. see attached screenshot from Apple Mail, albeit for a > vertical scrollbar--the trough is always shown, so you don't get > content jumping around as the bar appears/disappears, but the buttons > and shaft are gone so it has far less visual weight than a "full" > scrollbar. > -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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