Re: Feedback: New prefs dialog layout

Am 23.01.2012 21:01, schrieb Petr Kovar:
> Hi again,
>
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:18:33 +0000 (UTC)
> Duncan<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> After deciding to try a bit different workaround to the gnome-doc-
>> utils.make issue, I built and installed an updated pan for the first time
>> in some days, and got to see the new prefs dialog for the first time.
>> Here's some feedback.
> Regarding the gnome-doc-utils, my plan was to work on the Pan manual as we
> agreed with Heinrich that it definitely needs more work and possibly rewrite
> it from scratch during the GNOME Docs Project Sprint that is taking place
> in my city next month and where a couple of docs writers will meet to work
> on GNOME docs.
>
> I'll probably use the new docs format Mallard XML instead of DocBook and
> will convert the docs build dependency from gnome-doc-utils to the new
> package that is used by GNOME 3 (don't recall the name now). The new
> package should solve some of the build issues that happen with
> the gnome-doc-utils that is going to be deprecated at some point anyway, so
> we will see.
I like it. Please do that.
>
>> I like the tabstrip ribbon at the top, with the arrows at each end.  That
>> should definitely help with the small resolution over-sized width problem.
>>
>> But of course I've some ideas for improvements.  See the last paragraph
>> below for IMO the most critical one.
>>
>> The best improvement I could suggest for the tabribbon would be adding
>> icons, as it looks a bit plain and the many tabs undistinctive and hard
>> to pick out at a glance, as it is.  An option for icons-only, no text,
>> would be nice, but I'm not sure how it fits in with the gnome/gtk
>> guidelines.  But icons and text would at least break up the long string
>> of instinctive tab labels a bit.
> Even the tab ribbon with text labels and icons next to them doesn't fit in
> with the GNOME HIG guidelines that Pan has been trying to follow.
>
> FWIW, for the GNOME 3 / GTK+ 3 apps, the menu item icons were removed and
> are no longer used by default. So in order for Pan to fit nicely in a
> GNOME / GTK+ environment, I'd suggest not to use the icons even though I
> can understand the concern with picking up the right Pref dialog tab. :-)
>
> Of course, this is not to say that Pan shouldn't care about non-GNOME
> environments.
Well, I can always make an option to show the text only.
The ribbon has to stay imho because there's afaik no other option to group
that lot of tabs.

Cheers.