Re: [Planner Dev] Testing group undo

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

lör 2004-02-14 klockan 02.34 skrev lincoln phipps openmutual net:
> Richard,
> 
>  >>re:
>  >>This sets the label for the menu items as well, which should have the
>  >>full string for a nice touch, and also the tooltip for the buttons
>  >>should have to full string. We could check in your patch and add a bug
>  >>to bugzilla for the other things.
> 
> OK,  this new version keeps the menu and tooltips
> as the long format describing the undo/redo but the buttons
> stay fixed as "Undo" or "Redo" but the button have tool tips
> too.
> 
> I did it by simply creating extra ui verbs one for buttons (B)
> and one menus (M). Then when we actually change tooltips/labels
> - just don't play with button labels.

This kind of against the point of the verb/ui split, the point is to
have one verb for each action and have multiple ui "entry points" for
that action. So we need to set the label separately for that action
instead of for the verb. I commited your first patch and added a bug:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134357

> Starting to get used to this gui stuff.

:)

> ps: I've got my new resource use/add dialog about 40% complete.
> I've hooked into all the existing resource add stuff with my
> new Glade dialog (it has a "Apply" and a "Cancel" button
> and have a working dialog (that adjusts 1 task). Now just
> have to get the active/inconsistent logic working to adjust
> many tasks.

Great!

> I'm really stuck on sorting the Resource (Resource/Activate/Units )
> columns. I want to have these columns sortable but just can't
> work out what to do - may have to have non-sorting columns
> in my dialog.

That's a very good start anyway, we can sort it out (!) later :)

/Richard

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