On 18/08/15 21:59, Peter Uhnák wrote:
I would expect the left/right history buttons being right next to the
History Navigator selector. That way history-related controls are
together and the purpose of the buttons is obvious

The history navigation would be better without the selector by addding
a drop-down menu to the back button in a way similar to that in web
browsers, i.e. click goes back, while mouseDown and hold opens the
menu.

Placing them all on a single line would also save up vertical space,
which considering we've added QualityAssistant and Rubric adds another
line is quite valuable.

The single line was a pretty bad idea, considering that we could not make clear which button applied to what part of the UI. There are two places where new users expect that, either at the top or at the bottom of a window.

And finally, code-wise I've never really interacted with Morphic and
stayed in Spec, so when I was digging through code it seems that the way
Morphs are composed are through these "addMorph:fullFrame: (LayoutFrame
identity rightFraction: 0.10; yourself);" constructs sprinkled
haphazardly throughout the code. Is there nothing like SpecLayout?

Sure, just take a look at LayoutPolicy and subclasses. I feel like we're missing a constraints based or grid layout in Morphic.

Stephan


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