[Straw-devel] Re: A UI few suggestions

[Jan Alonzo]

Steven Garrity <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,

Hi,

> I'm not much when it comes to python, but I do have a few UI suggestions.
> Forgive my asking without contributing - hopefully my suggestions will be
> considered a "contribution" :-)

suggestions, bug reports are "contributions" ;)


> Can we use a real GtkStatusbar?
> It would ad a window resize grip to the bottom right of the primary window,
> which looks great, at is useful in that it adds a larger clickable area for
> window resizing.
>
> In the Straw Preferences and Feed Properties, can we add a units label to the
> Polling time input boxes. Right now, it's not clear if the times are  minutes
> or seconds. I assume it's in minutes, but it can't hurt to be explicit about
> it.
>
> In the Straw Preferences, there's room to the right of the input boxes to put
> the word "minutes". I've mocked this up in Glade:
> http://actsofvolition.com/images/screenshots/straw_prefs.png
>
> However, the "Use Default" checkbox takes up this space in the Feed
> Properties, so that might require a little reworking.
>
> I'd also like to see Next Unread and maybe some of the other navigational
> items from the Go menu as a buttons on the toolbar.
>

Thanks for the suggestions. One of the issues with putting some navigational
buttons in the toolbar is that we currently don't have icons for different
navigational buttons, therefore it will be confusing to put them there.

I'm willing to do all of the above if everyone's ok with it.


Cheers,

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Jan Alonzo                          <address@hidden>