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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Menubar and toolbars
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date:       2000-01-31 15:09:38
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Tomas Furmonavicius wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 03:53:35PM +0100, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
>
>> >It's simply confusing when toolbar items change depending on toolbar 
>> >orientation. What are you going to show in vertical mode - 
>> >a paper-clip ? :-) 
>> 
>> No, as example of the font combo you would put there a button which opens the
>> font dialog. Makes sense IMO.
>
>Well, it's really confusing. 
>
>>From programmers point of view it's of course more interesting to 
>follow position of widgets and secretly change their functionality.
>But I'm looking from users point of view. Why should something change in
>toolbar, just because I moved it around ? Toolbar should be atomic -
>each item must have one and unchangeable functionality and UI - combo
>box should not be changed to pushbutton or vice versa.

Well, that's depending on how you see it. In my point of view you have actions
and they are represented in different containers differently. This is e.g. the
action "set font size" and it's represented differently in a popup-menu, a
horizontal toolbar and a vertical one.

-- 
Reggie

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