Re: GtkTreeView column-chooser dialog

[Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de>]

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 23:56, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> 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?

Three possible approaches to toolbar customization are outlined in the
toolbar GEP (http://developer.gnome.org/gep/gep-6.html), and I think the
plan (if there ever was any) was to look at implementations in galeon,
epiphany and similar apps and pick a good one.

Matthias