Re: [Usability]Re: PATCH: Bug 82107, Turn off nautilus sidebar and location bar by default

["Sean.A.Mc-Elroy-1" <smcelroy ou edu>]

I completely agree about your thickness observation. Many windows seem larger than necessary, and their controls are spread out, buffered by space that looks much to large. For me, it has a psychological effect in that large buttons and extraneous space between controls and in windows just does not look as refined and developed - one reason I prefer the W2K look as opposed to WinXP's style. The more compact windows and controls are, the eye and mouse movement they require.

In a quick overview of the HIG, I noticed in Chapter 8 specifications for control spacing. I'm not completely knowledgable about the underlying workings of Gnome, but is there a way for the GUI to generate these control positions (therefore spacings) and thus window sizes dynamically based on the window's relative control layout, perhaps using a spacing value read from GConf or some other configuration file? It would be nice to be able to theme such details as well as have the configurability to accommodate different users' tastes. By not hard-coding things such as absolute pixel distances into the UI, it becomes easier for compliant HIG applications to be updated as the HIG changes.

Just my random thoughts about how to make the world a better place, ;)

Sean
smcelroy ou edu


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And personally I think, nautilus looks somewhat, well, thick.

I'm running a w2k box, next to my linux box, win32 explorer provides a
poor but more viable/useful content; rather than a beautiful look.
Nautilus just rocks, but please, could we have, *thinner* lines (smaller
toolbar [icons, buttons]/location bar) overall the application? The zoom
widget would be even more useful to be a combo for example. And I'd love
to have selective text *near* buttons, on the toolbar. It's totally
pointless to have text next to/under some icons, but it makes easy to
understand them for beginners.