From koffice Mon Jan 31 16:56:50 2000 From: "Tomas Furmonavicius" Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:56:50 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: Menubar and toolbars X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=94933767003793 On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 04:54:48PM +0100, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote: > >>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. Aha. Now I see. You think, that the same toolbar in horizontal mode and in vertical mode are different containers. Maybe it's true from programmer's point of view, but not from user's. Popup menu and toolbar are different containers, but toolbar is the same container, independently of its size, state and position. Making vertical and horizontal toolbars to work differently makes the UI to complex and unintuitive. Tomas