Re: Re: GNOME CVS: galeon philipl

On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 16:12, John McCutchan wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 06:16, Gnome CVS User wrote:
> > > 
> > > CVSROOT: /cvs/gnome
> > > Module name: galeon
> > > Changes by:  philipl 02/11/02 00:16:31
> > > 
> > > Modified files:
> > >  .              : ChangeLog 
> > >  mozilla        : ContentHandler.cpp 
> > >  ui             : galeon.glade 
> > > 
> > > Log message:
> > > 2002-11-01  Philip Langdale <philipl@ma...>
> > > 
> > > * mozilla/ContentHandler.cpp
> > > * ui/galeon.glade: What? Helper app handling isn't completely
> > > braindead? Quick, someone call the HIG police, it looks like
> > > the user was actually offered some level of choice; can't have
> > > that. Added option-menu to MimeAskActionDialog containing
> > > gnome-vfs helpers. Default helper is selected item. If there
> > > are no helper apps defined, the option-menu, open button, and
> > > text saying you can open the file are all hidden; if all you
> > > can do is save, then just offer that.
> > 
> > I reverted this since it broke the freeze. We can get it in when the
> > freeze is over (January I think). I want to discuss some ui issues
> > before though. In particular we should not use an optionmenu but a list.
> > The HIG states optionmenus should be used only when you lack space.
> > We could  have a disclosure triangle or a separate dialog with a check
> > box.
> > 
> > Marco
> 
> The UI Freeze isn't for another month. This seems more like a UI fix
> then a feature.
> 

Providing a way to open non default gnome vfs handlers is definately a
feature.

This even if we would assume we can make ui fix in this month, and I'm
still not clear about this ... Quoting louie:

>The idea behind the plan was that hackers would stop hacking the UI at
>the end of October and that at that point all UI changes would have to
>be approved by both the UI and the a11y teams. So... trying to get
>around it would be very sketchy.

I have a lot of bugs to deal with and I have really no time to work on
the additional issues this change is causing. After the feature freeze I
just want to concentrate to make what we have now work well. Doing it
alone will be already something hard.

Marco




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