Usability improvements for the class browser: buttons
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Usability improvements for the class browser: buttons
 
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Hello,
When I open a class browser in a Pharo Image (10418 updated to 10451) with the default Watery 2 theme, the window is visually dominated by the button bar. Compared to the other parts of the window, it has too much vertical height and there is not enough white space around the buttons. The problem with vertical height can be illustrated by looking at the precision needed to select a class category versus that needed to click the browse button. The button has about twice the vertical height. That would be ok when clicking the button would be the more common operation, but I don't find that to be the case. The kind of button used in Watery 2 only works well visually when it has a rather large white space around it. The button bar of the preference browser already works much better than that of the class browser, but even that has too little space above and below. The buttons in the button bar of the class browser feel very heavy because they don't have enough horizontal separation. With the default window size, there is not enough space for the needed separation. When the window is grown, instead of growing the separation first, and then the button width, only the button width is grown. Some operating systems have introduced a better solution for this problem, a dedicated button bar. Attached is an impression of how this could look. I hope you'd agree that it would provide a cleaner look. I'd be interested in some clues on what would be needed to add such a button bar. The red, orange, and green window buttons used to have a much better horizontal separation. I am not sure in which update they were put so close together, but they need at least as much horizontal separation as the space from left window border to the first (red) button. Stephan Eggermont _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
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Re: Usability improvements for the class browser:buttons
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The separation of the window control buttons (red, amber, green) is
currently dependent upon the font chosen for the window tiltle. As for the browser buttons it would be relatively little effort to make then look like the attached image. Regards, Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephan Eggermont" <[hidden email]> To: <[hidden email]> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 3:35 PM Subject: [Pharo-project] Usability improvements for the class browser:buttons > Hello, > > When I open a class browser in a Pharo Image (10418 updated to 10451) > with the default Watery 2 theme, the window is visually dominated by the > button bar. Compared to the other parts of the window, it has too much > vertical height and there is not enough white space around the buttons. > > The problem with vertical height can be illustrated by looking at the > precision needed to select a class category versus that needed to click > the browse button. The button has about twice the vertical height. > That would be ok when clicking the button would be the more common > operation, but I don't find that to be the case. > > The kind of button used in Watery 2 only works well visually when it > has a rather large white space around it. The button bar of the > preference > browser already works much better than that of the class browser, > but even that has too little space above and below. > > The buttons in the button bar of the class browser feel very heavy > because > they don't have enough horizontal separation. With the default window > size, there is not enough space for the needed separation. When the > window is grown, instead of growing the separation first, and then the > button width, only the button width is grown. Some operating systems > have introduced a better solution for this problem, a dedicated button > bar. > Attached is an impression of how this could look. I hope you'd agree > that it would provide a cleaner look. I'd be interested in some clues on > what would be needed to add such a button bar. > > The red, orange, and green window buttons used to have a much better > horizontal separation. I am not sure in which update they were put so > close together, but they need at least as much horizontal separation as > the space from left window border to the first (red) button. > > Stephan Eggermont > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project |
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