Re: [Usability]toolbar issues

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 18:25, Daniel F Moisset wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 13:01, usability-request gnome org wrote:
> > Heya,
> > 
> > At the moment the Galeon and Nautilus toolbars have a rightclick popup
> > menu on the back, up, and forward buttons. While this is very useful,
> > it's not very obvious that it's there. Also it has a lot of
> > implementation problems, like bonoboui not really supporting rightclick
> > stuff on toolbar buttons and stuff like that.
> > IMHO Gnumeric and AbiWord solved this much better by having an arrow
> > butotn next to their undo/redo buttons which drops down a list of
> > possible actions. See http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Files/dropdown.png.
> > That way it's clear it's there, and there are no implementation
> > problems.
> > 
> > Personally I would love to see that in both Nautilus and Galeon. I'm
> > writing the Galeon toolbar code, but I could also make a patch for
> > Nautilus if people are interested ...
> 
> There's no need to start coding; the feature you want is already there.
> If you go to Settings|Preferences|User Interface|Toolbar you will get a
> toolbar editor where, among the things you can put in the toolbar, there
> are "back history" and "forward history" buttons. Just adding them
> besides the back and fforward buttons will do what you want.

I know, I wrote that code 8) The point of this mail was actaully about
what to do in galeon2, and consistency with nautilus, and what generally
is better.

Cheers
Jorn

> 
> Perhaps it should be a default (I think it is in Mandrake's galeon), and
> perhaps it is important to add something in the HIG about right click on
> toolbars... I'll leave that to the UI experts here
> 
> 	Daniel
> 
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