Re: The Toolbar Widget
Re: The Toolbar Widget
- Subject: Re: The Toolbar Widget
- From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:40:50 +0200
At 1:06 Uhr -0400 27.09.2003, Scott Anguish wrote:
Obviously that's not a good example, it's not even the app I
intended to refer to there.. It's an exception only because it
allows selection of other preferences by menu. In a normal
preferences panel (and I did find an example) you'd not want to be
able to remove the list of tool items.. although iChat allows that
as well..
I don't claim Apple's design decisions are infallible. E.g. using
toolbars as tab controls isn't quite what I consider good UI, as long
as they don't indicate the currently selected item somehow. I heard
that was planned for Panther (and it actually was on a couple screen
shots and looked quite nice), but got pulled. That's a pity.
Fine.. I give. I'm an idiot.. that really shouldn't be news
to anyone though. :-)
We want nobody to claim this list wasn't helpful in doing self-discovery ;-)
One possible situation where the small mode might not work,
is the case of a custom view that simply can't be scaled usefully to
a 24 pixel high format.
In that case, I'd say "the user knows best" and just turn this
defect into a feature. This could be done, as I mentioned in my other
post, by showing a panel, sheet or whatever that contains a full
version of the widget.
There are people who don't mind an additional click if they can save
screen space. The same rationale brought us pull-down menus, after
all.
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Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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