RFC: refactoring window-register as widget-register + containing window

[Chris Lyttle]

On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 20:28, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > I feel that even in the main window-register we have to much space being
> > used. This results in a menubar that stretches across the screen. It
> > would be nice if we could either cut the size of the toolbar space used
> > down and/or have a toolbar that only showed text for items where it's
> > not clear what purpose they have. I have attached a file showing an
> > example of the sort of icon/text combination I'm thinking of.
> > (toolbar.png) In this example obviously the print icon itself is clear
> > enough to not need a text description (I used that as it was the easiest
> > icon to attach text too). This shows how we could use a text description
> > beside the icon to minimise screen use and leave other icons whose
> > purpose is clear without text descriptions. Tooltips can also make the
> > icon's purpose clearer.
> 
> I have no idea what most of those icons mean.  OTOH, so long as
> there is a popup help I can live without text description.  But
> for naive users I think having the text under the icon is a Good Thing.
> 
> Could you at least have the option to turn the text on/off?
> 
Perhaps I should of made the picture show exactly what I meant. You can
turn off the text, thats how I made this. I am not suggesting we turn
off text for things that aren't obvious, but if you have a printer icon,
there's really no need for the text. I might be better to have 2 icon
bars, 1 that has common easily recognisable icons with no text and 1
that has text and icons. What I'm basically trying to get at is that the
icon's and text take up way to much space on the toolbar.

Chris