[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Palette based tool combobox

[Aleksey Lim]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:00:34PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Original issues with native comboboxes:
> 
> * only one column, user has to scroll it
> 
> * ugly gtk behavior when if bottom item was previously chosen, new combo
>   popup will show it at current position thus to see bunch of upper
>   items use has to scroll the list (see atached files)
> 
> So, it could be implemented in palette.
> Any idea how such palette could look like?
> Some examples are attached.

of course in most cases only icon could appear in toolbar w/o any cation
but in some cases e.g. Jornal's when or buddies combo, having caption in
toolbar makes sense

> 
> Issues:
> 
> * since length of item captions could be diferent, some size in toolbar
>   sould be reserved (like in original combobox) but drawing only text
>   looks ugly (see 1-1.png) - there is empty space between new combobox and
>   right items
> 
> * ugly look if while popping up the palette, caption was included to palete
>   frame (see 2-2.png) 
> 
> -- 
> Aleksey

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Aleksey