hig work

[Thomas Zander]

On Monday 1 August 2005 15:22, seele at obso1337.org wrote:
> hum, we cant seem to agree if radio buttons have a place on the toolbar
> or not

Yeah; I understood that from the conversations :)

Personally I'm inclined to conclude the widget choice is not the issue 
here; the design choice to make an application modeless or modefull is 
what is making this hard to use.

From what I see in KPDF (as well as all the other KDE apps that already 
use it) its normally not a problem at all and users don't even need to 
learn these options are radio buttons since they are just actions that 
happen to automatically disable another button.

Examples of good radio buttons (please feel free to comment);
toolbox-type collection of actions. Only one can be used at a time:
http://www.valdyas.org/~boud/images/krita/newtoolbox.jpg

attachment: kword-radioGroups
Both the floating toolbar (the paragraph alignment buttons) and the insert 
button toolbars are radiobutton groups. Acting independently from each 
other.
The 4 icons on the floating toolbar can be used to align the text layout; 
see example paragraphs in that image.  Placing the cursor changes the 
selected toolbutton.

I have a strong feeling at least some of us are talking about quite 
different things here..
Please try to include pictures or classnames (from QtDesigner) if you are 
talking about a certain widget.
-- 
Thomas Zander
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