[bt-devel] Toolbar usability (was:New Windows users and user experience)

[Thomas Abthorpe]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:31:09 +0200 (EET)
Eeli Kaikkonen <eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:

> The reason you use horizontal is a more general usability problem. The
> toolbars take too much space and Qt automatic toolbutton hiding/showing
> doesn't work well for us. That's one reason I'm trying to write
> a text area header (see a previous post) which could potentially
> replace the "Select work" buttons.

That is exactly it!

> 
> What about replacing two history buttons with one, like in Windows
> version of Firefox? The vertical space it would take would probably be
> less than 1/2...2/3 of the current space of the two buttons.
> 
> I rarely use the Search and Displaysettings buttons of a text window.
> The actions could work in the RMB menu as well. How about adding a View
> menu submenu "Text windows"->"Show search button", "Show work chooser
> buttons", "Show settings button", "Show history buttons"...? It would
> show/hide the corresponding buttons of all text windows. That way a user
> could see only the buttons he actually uses and could still access the
> actions from the RMB menu.

To that I say, "Just do it (tm)"

:-D


Thomas

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