Being a bit late in responses is the curse of daily digests... I see
now that you posted your changes before I responded to the proposal.
The real gist of my post was that users may want to have something other
than 3 items displayed at a time. Rather than just say a few vague
words, I tried to create a layout that would handle it.
There is also the possibility of adding more pictures to your design,
but the question becomes where to stop... Allowing the option to only
display one or two items adds only 3 more pictures. The most common way
to handle 4 items would be to split the window into quadrants...
I don't have a whole lot of GTK experience. Do such things as vpanes and
hpanes exist? I guess that even if they don't the meaning would have be
clear. You are right that panes only accept two items, but just like
the original ethereal GUI, there are ways to acceptably handle more than 2.
Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
Jason House wrote:
I think the dialog is very simple and very powerful. I unfortunately
am tempted by feature creep! ...
Well, you're a bit late ... ;-)
I've already implemented the layout preference page, as you might have
noticed.
I think your proposal is a bit too complex, without gaining a lot
additional functionality.
BTW: it's not as simple using as using just vboxes/hboxes, you might
have noticed the possibility to change the size of the widgets. It's
done using gtk panes, but unfortunately the panes can only handle two
content areas, not more.
Regards, ULFL
