Re: Print dialog mockup (re: tabs changing tabs sucks)
- From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Print dialog mockup (re: tabs changing tabs sucks)
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 15:28:23 +0200
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:39 +0200, Christian Persch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Larry Ewing caught me on irc this morning to ask why an element in the
> > print dialog notebook widget (namely the printer list) affect the tabs
> > in the notebook itself. I agree with him that it can be confusing and
> > the general consensus was printing dialogs suck in general.
> >
> > I spent a couple of minutes doing a rough mockup of how we might
> > approach making it a bit better (PPD generated UI is never going to
> > become a paradise). I'm not going to implement this since fixing the
> > internals is more important right now, but if some enterprising soul
> > wants to give it a shot (should be easy) then have at.
>
> I don't like that mockup too much. Looking at the pages generated for
> the printers here, the 'advanced' page uses almost full height. So with
> halved height, it'll have a scrollbar, or make the dialogue too tall.
>
> IMHO the better way to fix the 'disappearing' tabs would be simply to
> make the non-available tabs insensitive instead of invisible, which
> would probably involve fixing
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58433 .
Thats really not possible. The tabs you get depends on the printer
backend at runtime, and in the future we'll hopefully have things like
driver-added printer-specific extra tabs.
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