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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Karbon
From:       Rob Buis <rwlbuis () xs4all ! nl>
Date:       2006-01-25 7:54:38
Message-ID: 20060125075438.GA12474 () xs4all ! nl
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Hi,

For the record, and since we discussed it already on irc some time ago, I 
agree with Tim on the toolbar on top idea.
Cheers,

Rob.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 08:39:57AM +0100, Tim 
Beaulen wrote:
> On 1/24/06, Michael Thaler <michael.thaler@physik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
> >
> > But the tool options are still shown in a popup window. Is anybody working
> > on
> > making them appear in a docker when the tool is activated? If not, I can try
> > to do this.
> >
> 
> Hello Michael,
> 
> I don't think every Karbon developer likes to see the tool dialogs
> being converted to dockers, for a couple of reasons:
> 
> - The dockers are usually on the right, which means a lot of mouse
> movement. It's possible to put the dockers on the left of the screen
> though, next to the tools toolbar though.
> 
> - The docking space is limited. It can get extremely crowded and will
> limit the possibilities that can be done when using a dialog.
> 
> 
> One thing that we look at is how other vector drawing programs do things.
> And it looks that some of them use a toolbar that has specific buttons
> for that tool.
> So, you have two toolbars at the top of the screen. The standard one,
> and the toolbar of the selected tool. Using the toolbar of the
> selected tool, the user can change settings in a dialog that pops up
> when clicking a button on that toolbar.
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