Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest



On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 13:00 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote:
> Am Montag, den 01.03.2010, 14:57 +0000 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
> > Widgets
> > -------
> > 
> > Having often used widgets in GTK+ means that we reduce differences in
> > appearance and behaviour between applications and make applications
> > easier to maintain.
> > 
> > If the APIs are carefully thought of, usability and design changes can
> > be made without touching the applications.
> > 
> > A couple of widgets were mentioned:
> > - a sidebar widget (which I never followed-up on):
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307044
> > - a breadcrumb navigation widget (which could be used in nautilus, the
> > file chooser and yelp, for example)
> > No bugs filed, Cody will be working on filing a bug, and start
> > discussions about the API soon
> > - Segmented bar? It's used in Rhythmbox, Banshee, the Ubuntu installer
> > and could probably be used in others
> > There's a C version in Rhythmbox now:
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558576
> > - Others?
> 
> Application chooser widgets (dialog, button, menu). Just think of
> firefox' way to choose applications (regular file chooser).

I'd say that there wouldn't be very many applications using this widget
(possibly just file managers like Nautilus and Thunar, and 3rd-party
apps like Firefox).

This could live with gmenu or gnome-desktop.



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