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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: conceptual changes to toolbars
From:       Antonio Larrosa <antlarr () arrakis ! es>
Date:       2000-03-05 22:32:36
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Sven Radej wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> >On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> (...)
> >> > I meant the approach of letting the user edit his toolbars. I.e. remove
> >> > all those he doesn't want and therefore keep the bars lean and clean.
> >> > Dragging an item out of a toolbar on some trash-icon removes it, and
> >> > dragging menuitem from the menu onto the toolbar would create it.
> >>
> >> Hmm.. well, that wouldn't be hard to do programatically but tricky
> >> conceptually.  How do we know when a user is just clicking the button
> >> or clicking on the button to drag it to the trash (or move it)?  Don't
> >> say a time delay because we already have buttons (delayed menus) that
> >> depend on a time delay.  Maybe a CTRL-click?  Er.. that would be a
> >> hidden feature for sure.. almost nobody would remember that.
> >
> >Isn't it the release of the mouse button that starts whatever the button
> >is for? Pressing the mouse button and dragging would be fine then.
> 
> Some buttons or elements can be activated only by press: buttons with menus or
> delayed menus, comboboxes...
> 

Oops, I forgot about comboboxes in my previous mail. Forget everything I said.

> I think that better way would be option "Edit toolbar" and all toolbar elements
> would be in drag-mode. We could even provide a dialog with list of KActions
> which (KActions, not dialog) could be dragged to/from toolbar.
> 

Yes, that's a good idea, putting the toolbar in "editable mode" using a popup
menu in the handle sounds good.

Greetings,

--
Antonio Larrosa Jimenez
Student of Mathematics
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http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa
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