Re: bit of help with bug #7397

From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere_at_teaser.fr>
Date: Mon Sep 27 2004 - 15:43:49 CEST

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 09:58 +1000, James Whitwell wrote:

> > I think our toolbars are very un-Apple-UI (non-aquatic?) since the
> > Cocoa approach is to integrate toolbars within the document window. I
> > don't really like the normal Cocoa toolbars, though maybe we could
> > integrate the two approaches, using our toolbars but within the
> > document window...?
>
> That's true (non-aqueous?), but I think Mac users are used to slightly
> non-conforming UI. Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Word, Photoshop all use
> the toolbar at the top approach. It sounds like a lot of work, to move
> our toolbar into the document window, don't you think?

The reason I did the toolbars like this is because they are IMHO too
wide to be in the document window, if I use NSToolbars. And I'm not even
sure I'd have the flexibility.

> The other thing that's been bugging me is that you can slide the window
> title-bar underneath the toolbar, which is a bad thing.

It is not a good thing.

But I think there are more serious issues than cosmetix like toolbars.
Like supporting plugins, fixing drawing bugs, etc.

Hub

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Received on Mon Sep 27 15:48:02 2004

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