Re: GTK FE and -DDEBUG builds?

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Roland Kay wrote:

> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:52:11 +0100 (BST)
> From: Roland Kay <roland.kay@ox.compsoc.net>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: GTK FE and -DDEBUG builds?
>
>
> > Isn't this just Abi respecting the GNOME icon settings?
>
> Yes. Don't worry, I wasn't complaining. I just thought it was a likely
> reason why the UI might be looking extremely strange after doing a CVS
> update.
>
> On my system the space allocated to each button when
> "desktop/gnome/interface/toolbar_style" is set to "both" is very large
> though. So large that most of the buttons are off the edge of the screen.
> Is it meant to look like this? [See attached screenshot]

The toolbar button labels are too long and some of them need to be
shortened, ideally to only one word each. Print Preview could be
shortened to Preview, Spellcheck to Spell, Insert Image to Image, for
example (we still have longer tooltips if a more detailed description is
needed).

Using homegenous sizes for toolbar buttons isn't a great idea either.
Using inconsistent sizes is a bit ugly (see Nautilus) sometimes but a
better solution would be to make the minimum width of a button at least as
big as the toolbar button height.

There might actually be a bug report about this as I've looked at it
before and it has long been built into Abiword but until now you needed to
manually edit your Abiword Profile to enable it.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Fri Jul 1 17:40:13 2005