On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 13:00 +0100, Sven Herzberg wrote: > Am Montag, den 01.03.2010, 14:57 +0000 schrieb Bastien Nocera: > > Widgets > > ------- > > > > Having often used widgets in GTK+ means that we reduce differences in > > appearance and behaviour between applications and make applications > > easier to maintain. > > > > If the APIs are carefully thought of, usability and design changes can > > be made without touching the applications. > > > > A couple of widgets were mentioned: > > - a sidebar widget (which I never followed-up on): > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307044 > > - a breadcrumb navigation widget (which could be used in nautilus, the > > file chooser and yelp, for example) > > No bugs filed, Cody will be working on filing a bug, and start > > discussions about the API soon > > - Segmented bar? It's used in Rhythmbox, Banshee, the Ubuntu installer > > and could probably be used in others > > There's a C version in Rhythmbox now: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558576 > > - Others? > > Application chooser widgets (dialog, button, menu). Just think of > firefox' way to choose applications (regular file chooser).
I'd say that there wouldn't be very many applications using this widget (possibly just file managers like Nautilus and Thunar, and 3rd-party apps like Firefox). This could live with gmenu or gnome-desktop. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
