Applications-menu

[daniele favara]

On 5/3/06, Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I think, if we would create a visible button (something I showed in the
> screenshot yesterday) and prevent theme creators to modify it (dont forget
> that most of them not visually trained) we would end up a consistent,
> user-friendly
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> we should not prevent anybody from messing up their desktop in any way they
> wish. I assume the creator of the user of screenshot you provided is happy
> with what she/he did.
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> > and always good looking desktop. By the way, following a general
> gnome-like design principle, doesn't mean we have to except everything
> slavishly and adopting even the bad ideas.
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> > That the launchers doesn't have a button appearance is ok, because
> "buttonifing" the application menu would mean showing it has a priority over
> other items; it is the most important item on the panel, more important than
> the launcher icons. And you still can create a subtle rollover effect by
> slightly altering its color when clicking on it.
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> If it's more important or not that again depends on the user. I agree it is
> quite important, but that is why it is put in a quickly reachable corner
> (almost) by itself.
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> I don't think that making a button look as if it was selected when it is not
> is a good idea. Making it more prominent some other way  may be ok , but
> only if it does not create a distraction during normal use.
> BTW how does kde do this? Any screenshots?

if i'm not wrong ... panel button look cames from xfce libs ...
obviously it's possible to change it .. but that's somehow an xfce
default look, same as dialog headers and so on.  i 'm not sure, but i
think it could be changed from gtkrc ... if it's really needed


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