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[Bug 500209] Re: UI issues

 

Well , i asked the alacarte dev regarding the icon flag, and his response was:
"each button is setup to contain a custom widget then I stick an hbox in with an image and a label
 that's not the proper way though
 that's just how glade forced me to do it long ago"

So i guess its kinda of a hack. cairo-dock could use the same hack...

Or , just give the buttons 12px padding on both sides, which makes the
buttons bigger and look cleaner even with the default settings. :)

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UI issues
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Bug description:
Since , i noticed that the cairo dock is cleaning up the configurations window , I thought I'd mention a couple of other simple issues:

- The "Quit" button , in the configurations window , should actually be named "Close" , since all it does is close the window. Generally , in all other applications "Quit" is used to quit the whole application including all running instances.
- "OK" and "Quit" buttons seem to perform the same function. Why have two buttons? "Close" could just replace both. 

- When user right-clicks on the dock , the Cairo-dock submenu , has too many options. 
Could the "Developer site" and the "Community site" options be moved to the "About" window? It would be easier to better explain the options and provide these links in the "About" window.

- Using the Up and down arrow icons for the Unmaximize and the minimize is a bit misleading... Ideally, the dock could use its own icons which are consistent with default metacity buttons , or not show any icons like how metacity does it. 
- Keep the unmaximize and minimize options together , similar to the options shown in the window , Would give some consistentcy to the user when using both the dock and the metacity window. [currently they are separated by the "show" option ]

PS: nice work on the new simple mode :)





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