[Panel-devel] [PATCH] Smaller toolbox with icons

Craig Duquette cduquette at gmail.com
Tue Dec 25 07:19:07 CET 2007


I've updated my patch to clean up some sloppy code.

~Craig

On Dec 24, 2007 7:13 PM, Craig Duquette <cduquette at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's pretty cool, I was thinking of moving the icons to the arc of
> the toolbox also. What about this? I've moved the + to the right and
> the two zoom buttons appear on the bottom of the toolbox. Someone from
> IRC had a similar idea of moving icons to the two different sides.
>
> This patch also contains the non-resizing toolbox code in it. Now the
> toolbox will be displayed against a white background when zoomed out
> so I semi-reverted the gradient back to the original. The edge fades
> to fully invisible when fully expanded. I think it'd be cool to have
> it fade to invisible on the default view like the original patch..
>
> Also any idea on how to do tooltips? There is a function
> setToolTip(ToolTipData), but I'm really not sure how to construct a
> 'ToolTipData' thingy..
>
> Craig AKA gamma
>
>
> On 12/24/07, Alex Merry <huntedhacker at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Monday 24 Dec 2007, Alex Merry wrote:
> > > On Sunday 23 Dec 2007, Craig Duquette wrote:
> > > > This patch replaces the buttons that appear when you hover over the
> > > > toolbox with nice pretty oxygen icons :D.
> >
> > > I think my preference would be to have the text written to the left
> > > of the icons, and ideally to have the icons in a quarter-circle
> > > following the circumference of the toolbox.
> >
> > A quarter-circle wouldn't work with text on the left, actually, now I
> > think about it.  The attachedd patch is the prettier toolbox plus a
> > diagonal line of icons.
> >
> > There's no text yet, so that either needs adding in or some tooltips are
> > required.
> >
> > And if we go with tooltips, we can have a quarter-circle (although I
> > think text is probably better...)
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
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