Thanks, Alan, I love this e-mail.
It's true that both my screens are large. After years of 800x600 I did
my quoth-the-raven imitation: "Never More!"
I agree: it's too wide. Also, Ryan doesn't like the color. Oh, and I
want to make the palette title bars buttons. Hmm, what else,... Oh,
yes, more palettes...
Basically, this is the first version, and anyone who wants to help me
redesign the layout please get in touch!
I don't know who or what Wilber the Gimp is...
In the current build I think the palette isn't optional, but I'll be
making sure it is in the next. There's a possibility that I can make
the palette a plugin, but I need to think that through.
I haven't disabled the toolbars, but the toolbars are slightly buggy
and I'm not sure how best to fix them. I feel compelled to point out
that the toolbars have also been accused of eating up screen space...
Amused, Frank
On 14 Oct 2004, at 15:57, Alan Horkan wrote:
> screenshot of Abiword on OS X with palettes
> http://www.crazy-wormhole.com/download/ToolPalette.png
>
> The horror.
> I honestly cannot believe you did that.
>
> It is like looking at the bastard child of Abi the Ant and Wilber the
> Gimp
> on Apple.
>
> You have a huge screen I dread to think how/if this would work on a
> smaller screen size.
>
> I really hope that this is not the default and that these palettes are
> really just more powerful flexible versions of toolbars. I hope it it
> is
> possible to setup abiword so that it is not wildly inconsistant with
> how
> it looks on other platforms, which is as close as I can manage to
> constructive criticims. If this is not how it will look by default
> then I
> am overreacting but that screenshot is terrifying and I fear the worst.
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