Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Toolbar: Summary of discussion

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From: "Ulf Lamping" <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:27:02 +0200
Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 15.10.03 11:12:19:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:57:52AM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > The toolbar can be en-/disabled by a menu item: "View->Toolbar" with a
> > check/uncheck menu item (I think GTK supports this).  This setting will
> > be saved in the preferences file, everytime it is changed.  It will not
> > be part of the preference GUI dialog.
> 
> Yes.

Ok, I think we have this point.

> 
> > The toolbar style ("icon", "text", "both") can be changed by a setting
> > in the preference GUI dialog "Edit->Preferences->User Interface" and
> > will be saved each time the user triggers the save button of this
> > dialog.
> 
> Yes, although it might be that the setting should be controlled by an
> item in a "View->Configure Toolbar..." dialog box.  (That's the Mac OS X
> convention for configuring toolbars, although I don't remember whether
> it has a text/icons/both option in any applications; I don't know
> whether that convention is used by Windows or by any of the major
> UNIX+X11 toolkits/desktop environments.)

I would think, using a seperate dialog box is a bit oversized (at least currently), as a configure toolbar will usually enable the user to select which icons appear in which toolbar and such. This feature requires a seperate dialogbox, of course, as there are lot's of possibilities. But this isn't a feature easy to implement, and I don't want to develop this as a first step, maybe later.

I know the "toolbar style" feature from Mozilla and GTK. As I find it helpful for the user and GTK offers it in an easy way, why shouldn't we use it?

Regards, ULFL
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