Re: GtkTreeView column-chooser dialog

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de> writes:

> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 00:44, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 17:56, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > > I find it mildly confusing that I have to move the columns up and down
> > > > in the dialog, while I really want to move them left and right in the
> > > > list...
> > 
> > Perhaps we can label it 'Swap Next' and 'Swap Previous'?
> 
> Or Move Before and Move After. Another mild irritation comes from the
> fact that I have to sort the visible and invisible columns in a single
> list, but any alternative two-list design would probably be much more
> complicated and space consuming - e.g. the galeon1.2 toolbar
> customization. But this brings up another point: this dialog is
> conceptually very similar to a toolbar customization dialog; both let
> the user select a subset of items from a list of available items and
> order the selected items. Can we make this column chooser dialog
> abstract enough to allow it to be used for toolbars as well ?

That's an interesting observation.  Given that this dialog is mostly for
showing and hiding columns, it should probably focus on that and have
reordering as a side effect.  The current keyboard/DnD way works pretty
well.  Matthias, did you have any ideas for a Toolbar customization
dialog?  Is there one written at all?

Thanks,
-Jonathan