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Re: Cosmetically enhancing the cosmetic enhancement

 

As variant, we may just disable menu entry for currently selected canvas.

2017-01-14 16:51 GMT+02:00 Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>:

> That's what I think I'll have to do.
>
> It can be annoying to have to fit within the GUI paradigm of all three
> OSes... What I'd /really/ like is something that looks like this, with a
> header:
>
>  +--------------+
>  | Canvas type  |
>  |              |
>  | ( )  Legacy  |
>  | (O)  OpenGL  |
>  | ( )  Cairo   |
>  +--------------+
>
> But I can't make that look good on OSX :((
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 03:44:21PM +0100, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> > I think that menu is a bit strange. Why not ditch the icon's for those
> > canvas options and just a checkmark as used in the language menu?
> >
> > 2017-01-14 15:35 GMT+01:00 Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > This looks bad:
> > >
> > > https://misc.c4757p.com/ugly.png
> > >
> > > Really bad. Three of the same icon, with low enough contrast that I can
> > > barely tell what it's a picture of... and seriously, prepending "** "
> to
> > > mark the selected item? Really? Even text-mode applications that are
> > > stuck doing things like that usually think to space over the deselected
> > > ones too so everything still lines up...
> > >
> > > If I prepared a patch to ditch the icon and display option buttons next
> > > to those instead, would it be argued against?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
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