[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Mldonkey-users] GUI cleanups, continued
From: |
Goswin Brederlow |
Subject: |
Re: [Mldonkey-users] GUI cleanups, continued |
Date: |
08 Oct 2002 05:11:17 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) |
Ivo <address@hidden> writes:
> As promised, here follows a list of things I deem wrong or not perfect in the
> GUI. This pertains to mldonkey_gui, not mldonkey_gui2. Is _gui2 still under
> development/maintained, by the way?
Not by my patches. Is that wanted? should I port my patches to gui2 too?
> A lot of this stuff basically comes from the fact that the GUI hasn't been
> perfected yet, or at least I think so. It may also be partly so that the GUI
> will break in places based on the GTK theme, screen resolution/window size,
The theme also breaks localisation. With some themes the gui stops
displaying text when it hits a ö, ä, ü, ß,...
> and that sort of thing. Still, it should scale well onto a wide userbase,
> rather than just a few installations where it has been tested. I suppose there
> are ways to make it look good on different configurations (some apps seem to
> pull it off just nicely).
The top structure of the gui is derived from *.zog files. That looks
like a gui creationg/editing kit to me. Hopefully that has theme support.
> - I think the GUI should remember some of its settings. It already remembers
> window size and sets it to the same as the previous session. I'd like it to
> remember the width of my columns (let's call it "table headers" in HTML
> terminology) as well. I find myself having to drag the Name column in the
> downloads view, for example, to see the entire filename. Either it's too
> small by default (default widths could be a little saner, to be honest) or
> it
> should just remember the size when I exit.
If you click at it it resizes to fit the columns contents. It resizes
all columns. Once thats a good idea. But it makes it impossible to
resize some tabs and then resort.
The gui should remember the size, yes. Also a double click between two
columns (instead of draging it to a different size) should resize to
fit the left column. A click in the middle should just sort. Thats how its
usually
done and it allows all operations to be performed.
> - I haven't used the Friends tab ever, really, but a couple things do puzzle
> me. For one, I see double. :) Two trashcans, two hands with "Download"
> beneath them. I also have no idea what the left Download panel is for. It's
> not very clear.
Directories and files. Most people don't share directories.
> - There is no consistency throughout the entire GUI where prompt/field
> convention is concerned. At some places, you'll find a
> "Search Timeout [ ]" (and why is there a dot after the value that's in
> it?? Like '120.' Lose the dot) and at another you'll see a
> keywords: [ ] prompt. Note the colon (:).
120. is a float, 120 an int. Its a missing "int_of_float" and
"float_of_int" pair.
MfG
Goswin