Re: xconfig

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 11:06:36 -0600


Hi Russell,

> Are there any plans to introduce sub-menus, or scroll bars for the main
> menu to xconfig?

2.2.0-pre7-ac4 has a three-column "wall of buttons".

I personally like walls of buttons. I appreciate constructive feedback
on my design choice. I am a language geek, not a GUI designer. (I can
hear the cries of "You got that right!" already).

Oh no, now I'm asking for a look-and-feel war. Please guys, focus your
opinions as "this is why I like my favorite look and feel for xconfig",
not "this is why anyone whose opinion is different from mine must be
a bozo."

Also, any design has to have a very simple, very reliable implementation.
I know scrollbars are; Hannu Lyytinen already sent me one patch for that,
and it's mostly re-arranging frames and canvases in header.tk. Submenus
involve digging around in tkgen.c.

But I really like the idea of submenus and I will _consider_ submenu
patches after Alan merges in my new tkparse code.

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"

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