[Glade-devel] Re-ordering the glade-3 palette

[pborelli katamail com (Paolo Borelli)]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 16:52 +0100, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
> Archit wrote:
> > Hey
> >
> > I don't know who decided it, but the palette in all the 
> > versions of glade till now is a hotch-potch imho. Except for 
> > GtkWindow which is right in the beginning most of the widgets 
> > are just thrown in there. What I suggest is that we reorder 
> > the items in the palette in order of the use. Like after 
> > GtkWindow the most used is the GtkHBox and GtkVBox. Why have 
> > them in the 7th row when they should be in the 1st or the 2nd 
> > row. Same can be done for others.
>
> I thinking about a more radical restructuration, like having each widget on
> a line (pixmap next to its name).  A bit like what other RADs do.

I'm not sure... wouldn't this lead to a much longer list, beside the
current way is similar to other tools like the Gimp or Dia. Can you post
some screenshots of the other RADs you mention?

> While we're at it, a restructuration of the placement of the widget would
> also be desirable, but of passing from a random placement to another
> (probably saner) placement, I would like to just put the items in
> alphabetical order.
>
> I'm not yet sure, however, that it's a good idea...

Is it worth the pain?
A really simple things we can do however is better split the catalogs,
like moving some seldom used stuff in "Additional" or create a "Standard
dialogs" catalog for FileSelector, Image selector etc.

ciao
        paolo