Re: Toolbar

[Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, George wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 09:09:05AM +0100, Laurent Gauthier wrote:
> > > I propose a global toolbar that has such tool. But the canvas code also
> > > need some more things, like graph icons to drag to the canvas.
> > > Should it be context sensitive, showing the global tools always and also
> > > the tools for the particular mode you are working in?
> > 
> > Yes, I think so.  If I remember well this is not an easy issue to cope with
> > in the MDI setup we have chosen, but it should be doable.  Maybe we could
> > have several toolbars: one for global tools, one for mode specific tools.
> > 
> > Maybe George has an idea about the feasability of this, as he knows the
> > GNOME libs much better than us.  Also we could discuss the implementation
> > issues on gnome-devel, as I know that the main author of the MDI code is
> > reading it.
> 
> Well AFAIK, the 1.0 MDI code will not handle child toolbars yet.  The current
> MDI in the HEAD should.  However I'm thinking we could hack around this
> and add support for the real thing when gnome-libs 2.0 come out.

Why not just hack up a GtkWindow in the mean time? I don't see why it
should be so hard to switch from gtk_window_new to gnome_mdi_toolbar_new
when that is widely available.

> > > Also, should the toolbar be dockable on the main window like the existing
> > > button bar is?
> >  
> > Why not?
> 
> I think the toolbar should be the standard toolbar.  The main thing we want
> to get at is consistency.  Especially since Dr Genius is aimed at education,
> it's user interface must be as consistent with other apps as possible.  So we
> should be using as much standard user interface as we can.  IMHO of course :)
> 
> George
>