[jsword-devel] Suggestion for improving display

[Joe Walker]

I've often wondered why more projects don't make more use of the
menubar. When I can be bothered the first thing I do on any app with a
customizable menu/toolbar is to move my buttons onto is.
I expect that the reason it isn't done more is that it might be
surprising to users?

Anyway for us it might not be a good option because the combo-box is
specific to each tab - each tab can be in a different version, so
moving it to the menubar would be complex and might make people think
they could only use one version at a time.

Joe.

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:53:35 -0400, Don Parris
<evangelinux at matheteuo.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Eric Galluzzo wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 13:08, DM Smith wrote:
> >
> >>Here is a mock up:
> >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Hmmm.  I'm not sure I like this terribly: 5 lines is an awful lot of
> > real estate.  Let me see if I can reduce it by comparing with the
> > Mozilla interface.
> >
> > In Mozilla:
> >       * The "address bar" contains both toolbar buttons and the editable
> >         address field.
> >       * Searching is done either in a sidebar or by typing something in
> >         the address field and selecting "Search for XYZ" in the
> >         dropdown.
> >       * There is no equivalent of the bible dropdown, the restriction or
> >         passage fields.
> >
> > Applying this to the Bible Desktop, we could perhaps reduce the amount
> > of real estate required by:
> >       * Getting rid of the radio buttons and putting the search and
> >         match and the corresponding fields in a sidebar
> >       * Getting rid of the radio buttons and displaving a plain text
> >         field that "popped down" a search and/or match option
> >       * Putting the "Find" field on the same line as some of the other
> >         fields (say, the Restriction field, which shouldn't be too
> >         large)
> >
> > Another possibility is to have just a plain text field with a "More
> > Options >>" button that pops down the other four lines.  Selecting a
> > radio button in the "more options" section would cause the plain text
> > field to behave in that manner, and the settings would persist even if
> > the "More Options <<" button were pressed in order to reclaim the real
> > estate.  Does that make any sense at all?  It's kinda late. :)
> >
> >         - Eric
> >
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> Would it be a problem to move the Bible Version drop-down box to the
> menu/toolbar?  I mean, you've got all that wasted space to the right side of
> both bars.  Where Mozilla has an address bar, make that the Version
> selector.  Just a thought.  But it doesn't necessarily need to be next to
> the raido buttons.  Hope that's helpful.
> 
> Don
> 
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