Re: bonoboui toolbar bits ...

Hi,

>Hi Guys,
>
>	What with the API freeze looming on the horizon, and the nastiness with
>themes and UI toolbar controls - I was hoping to add several controls to
>help you make your stuff look nice; so really - I suppose, I want to
>know what extra 'widget' types we need, and some idea of how we can
>describe them nicely in XML.
>
>	eg. the history (back/forward) button, can be simply implemented (and
>shared with Nautilus) perhaps with something like:
>
><menuitem name="GoBack" verb="" id="GotoLocation" type="history"
> max_items="20">
>	<placeholder>
>	<menuitem name="1" id="http://www.foo.com" _label="foo.com"/>
>	...
></menuitem>
>
>	Or somesuch ? what do you want from such a thing.

This sounds very good to me and should work for both nautilus and galeon.

>	Also; I see with the shortcuts, you have:
>
>	<label / icon> '<<' [text entry]
>
>	clearly that's not going to do too well as a control either; what
>requirements do you have for such things ? not being a galeon user I
>have no feel for what is needed here, but clearly it'd be nice to have
>that as a simpler built-in type that'll theme beautifully and be easier
>to code. Would a special 'control' item with a 'popout' [ is that what
>the  '<<' thing is ? ] button and a label/icon be sufficient for your
>needs ?
>

I'd let Ricardo comment on this since it's his code ...  It appear to be
sufficient to me (but is it going to be useful also to other apps ?) Though
I think we could not switch to use it unless a more general issue is solved
(see below, right click handling).

The biggest limitation we found in bonobo is the ability to show context
menu on toolbar items and menus. The ability to show context menus over
the bookmarks toolbar is something we really need like any other browser
...
Also we had a feature in galeon 1 where using middle button on menus/ toolbar
items was opening the page in another window/tab (like for links). This
is something people seem to miss a lot and there is no way we could get
it back without extending bonobo.
Would be possible to extend the xml format to support also middle/right
click ?

Another problem we had with bonobo, sorry if it's not directly related,
is the implementation of drag and drop of items in the bookmarks toolbar.
Is there a way bonobo could be extended to make this possible ?

Thanks

Marco



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