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===== General ===== | ===== General ===== | ||
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==== Tooltips ==== | ==== Tooltips ==== | ||
* [rfc] Indentation for sublevel entries should be: 2 spaces? 4 spaces? \t? | * [rfc] Indentation for sublevel entries should be: 2 spaces? 4 spaces? \t? | ||
- | * //ongardie 2007/12/18 05:51 Screenshots would be helpful [added below] // | ||
* //ongardie 2007/12/21 01:51 I think I like 2 spaces the best, personally. // | * //ongardie 2007/12/21 01:51 I think I like 2 spaces the best, personally. // | ||
* With GTK+2.12 you can add widgets in a tooltip, and therefore labels with markups, for bold for example. | * With GTK+2.12 you can add widgets in a tooltip, and therefore labels with markups, for bold for example. | ||
+ | * Or maybe a \t with a configurable (plus sensible default) tab width? -- // | ||
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Interface guidelines regarding the right-click menu provided by the panel. | Interface guidelines regarding the right-click menu provided by the panel. | ||
- | * [rfc] Help/About? | + | * [rfc] Help? |
* //ongardie 2007/12/18 05:51 The current trend is to not include these at all but to put information on the plugin web site. // | * //ongardie 2007/12/18 05:51 The current trend is to not include these at all but to put information on the plugin web site. // | ||
- | * // fabian 2007/12/18 22:47 GMT Well, some plugins just run the opposite trend: Disk Performance Monitor, Quiklauncher, | + | * [snip] |
- | * I wouldn' | + | |
* Some plugins have a dialog with a Help button which opens a webpage. | * Some plugins have a dialog with a Help button which opens a webpage. | ||
* To clarify, Mike meant to say they display a Help button in their preferences/ | * To clarify, Mike meant to say they display a Help button in their preferences/ | ||
- | * The three plugins fabian pointed out just show an About item in their context menu. Each of those about dialogs is rather poor, IMHO. Help has to be added manually to the context menu, and I agree with Mike in that its almost always unnecessary. I think the guideline here should be " | + | * Help has to be added manually to the context menu, and I agree with Mike in that its almost always unnecessary. I think the guideline here should be "Help context menu items are discouraged. A Help button inside the properties dialog is optional (see ...)" --- // |
+ | * [rfc] About? | ||
+ | * //ongardie 2007/12/18 05:51 The current trend is to not include these at all but to put information on the plugin web site. // | ||
+ | * // fabian 2007/12/18 22:47 GMT Well, some plugins just run the opposite trend: Disk Performance Monitor, Quiklauncher, | ||
+ | * The three plugins fabian pointed out [...] show an About item in their context menu. Each of those about dialogs is rather poor, IMHO. I think the guideline should be "About menu items are discouraged." | ||
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