Re: toolbars

["Erick Woods" <erick ljm net>]

Perhaps, but are the toolbars a function of the WM or of GTK+?

Erick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Landy Roman" <landie concentric net>
To: "Erick Woods" <erick ljm net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: toolbars


then you might want to try xfce
www.xfce.org

all gnome apps run great with this dynimic WM


On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:16:08PM -0600, Erick Woods wrote:
> Can someone please explain something for me?  I look at the toolbars in
> GNOME and they drive me crazy.  They take up way too much space.  If you
> compare spacing with Windows, it is really bad.  I use GNOME exclusively
> on my laptop.  I have limited screen space.  Every app uses way too much
> for toolbars that I like to have.  I have made an image comparing Word
> against Abiword to demonstrate this.  It can be found at:
>
> http://www.erick.com/gtb.png
>
> My point is not about the text adding to the size (although that is rather
> obnoxious, too), but the overall size of a button on a toolbar and the
> height if the toolbar in question.  Reviewing the picture I created shows
> that a standard text toolbar (file, edit, etc...) is 23 pixels high in
> Windows and 26 pixels in height in GNOME.  A graphical button toobar using
> small images in windows is 26 pixels high in Windows and 34 pixels in
GNOME.
> Now, looking at the GNOME toolbar, there is a lot of wasted space on all
> sides of the image.  It is very obvious that Windows makes better use and
is
> more efficient with screen real estate in this regard.  Add that together
in
> GNOME and you have used 19 more pixels for Abiword's 3 standard toolbars
> than the equivalent toolbars in Word/Windows.  This is what I have a
problem
> with. Is there a reason for this?  As you can see the difference is a
total
> of 19 pixels for 3 similar toolbars.  That may not be many, but it is when
> screen real estate is limited.   Is it just a theme issue?  I have tried
> other themes and that doesn't seem to make a difference, but I have not
> looked at them as closely.  Just a lot of undesirable white space, IMHO.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Erick
>
>
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