From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 23:57:04 EDT
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 03:55, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Die, 2003-06-03 um 18.48 schrieb David Adam Bordoley:
> > > From: Christian Neumair <chris@gnome-de.org>
> > >
> > > I just compiled a bunch of screenshots of my mockup for a new AbiWord
> > > preferences dialog [1-4].
> > > Please have a look at them and make proposals on what I can still
> > > improve. I like it much more than the old dialog but I'm not completely
> > > satisfied. Especially the buttons IMO are far away from looking perfect.
> > > Thanks for your efforts!
>
> I already got some suggestions from the abiword mailing list.
> The problem is that both of the lists are closed so postings are not
> really exchanged.
>
> > > [1] http://gnome-de.org/~manny/prefsmockup1.png
> > General:
> > 1. Why not move the statusbar and ruler prefs directly into the view menu.
> > Would make access to these much quicker.
> They are in the view menu, too.
> I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to keep it in the prefs dialog,
> too. Maybe you're right. AW devels?
>
> > 2. I thought there was a global gnome pref for cursor blink, wouldn't be
> > better to use this pref?
> I assume this is pref is set by a gconf key. As of today, AbiWord hasn't
> got any possibility to interact with gconf. Probably a 2.2 TODO.
>
> > 3. I think it would be better to move the toolbar editting interface stuff
> > into a seperate dialog. In epiphany we use edit->toolbars.
> I don't think Ephy's way of handling toolbars is acceptable for AbiWord.
> In AW you don't edit particular items, but the toolbar as a whole.
>
This isn't true. In Abiword you can drag and drop and toolbar buttons by
Right-press-drag and place them on other toolbars or in a different spot
on the toolbar if "Allow customizable toolbars" is set. Otherwise the
toolbars are set to the default layout.
Cheers
Martin
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-- Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au> University of Melbourne
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