Re: Toolbar

[George <jirka@5z.com>]

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.

> > 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