[bt-devel] next steps

[Gary Holmlund]

Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> Gary Holmlund wrote:
>   
>> The config settings dialog should be done for now. The resizing of the
>> Display page is working.
>>   
>>     
>
> I hate to trouble you even more with this, but I'm still not satisfied.
>
> First, the whole config dialog has still the outer margins removed. It 
> should look the same than the Bookself Manager, i.e. has the default 
> margins.
>
> Second, the font preview area doesn't actually need more space when the 
> dialog is resized. It's the font chooser which needs it because it has 
> many items in the scroll area. Now it's so short by default that it's 
> impossible to scroll with the scrollbar indicator - it doesn't move at 
> all (it may be style/resolution depended but so it is here). It should 
> have taller initial size - 5 or 4 lines would be good - and it should 
> expand. Also, if at all possible, the size chooser should have initial 
> width of e.g. two M's. (We have a helper function in CToolClass which 
> calculates the width of M for the current widget font - I think it's 
> much better for many situations than using pixels directly.) The font 
> name chooser should get the extra space because it may have very wide 
> text in it. Now a horizontal scrollbar takes even more vertical space 
> from it so that it has only two lines visible.
>
> You removed some text from the bookname language selector. Now when I 
> think it, this may be better. It was a technical detail which we have 
> wanted to show to users, maybe mostly because we don't control the 
> language collection and the text would direct the users to the Sword 
> project. However, it doesn't actually help and is a bit irrelevant. We 
> can live without it.
>
> Again, I'm sorry to bother you with same things, but I will let nothing 
> which may be uncomfortable or unpleasant for users creep in. Usability 
> and high quality of UI is very important to us.
>
> Anyways, your work is also very important to us. Your presence also 
> motivates me to work harder, so it has double the good effect. Keep that 
> in mind when I complain something...
>
> --Eeli Kaikkonen
>
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I agree that these changes make the dialog better. They were
easy changes and I have checked them in.

Gary