[bt-devel] close button on bookshelf dialog
Jaak Ristioja
jaak at ristioja.ee
Sun Jun 26 12:38:40 MST 2011
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Dear Gary and Martin,
I reverted Gary's addition of the close button to the Bookshelf manager
also because it was actually more-or-less a revert of my removal of the
close button back in September (commit c277ce) even before 2.8 beta, so
this has always been in the stable-2.8 branch. I even documented this
feature in the ChangeLog and announced the bookshelf manager redesign in
the 2.8 beta release announcement. You and Martin released Windows and
MacOS binaries of 2.8 beta. I might have bad memory, but I really don't
remember anybody objecting to my GUI redesign back then. So I've been
very happy about the redesign ever since. And I still am.
I'm very sorry, but you're just too late trying to take this up now.
Where were you when the discussion should have taken place? :|
On 24.06.2011 17:09, Gary Holmlund wrote:
> I believe a close button
> belongs on this dialog for usability reasons alone, even if a close icon
> is in the upper right corner.
I disagree. We should strive for simplicity and not duplicate such GUI
functionality (the KISS principle). Such waste of screen space harms
usability, especially on small screens (e.g Meego devices?).
>> Also, Meego does not put any window icons on their dialogs. There is
>> no work around for closing it on Meego.
According to
https://meego.com/developers/ui-design-guidelines/handset/designing-your-application
Meego appears to have a "close" button. Please tell me if I
misunderstood that text and those figures.
The current Bookshelf Manager GUI works well on Windows, KDE and Gnome
2. Gnome 3 has a bug which prevents it from working, so this is not an
issue we must work around in BibleTime. Has anybody even run it on
Meego? Any other platforms with problems?
This is not a bug. This is a feature introduced more than 9 months ago.
IF and only IF there is a serious reason to re-introduce the close
button, it should be done using conditional compilation (e.g.
#ifdef/#ifndef). The default should be to compile without the close button.
God bless!
Jaak
PS: In the future we should probably also discuss about simplifying the
MDI stuff and everything related to the subwindow toolbars.
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