Hi Mikus,
On 29 Sep 2009, at 15:14, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
With now more exposure to it, I still do not like the new toolbar
design. The XO has a *small* display screen. Now many Activity
capabilities (such as 'Edit' in Terminal) can only be invoked from a
secondary toolbar that drops down from the primary toolbar. The two
toolbars together take up a significant amount of XO screen real
estate. And each time the secondary toolbar needs to be shown or
hidden, it takes one *extra* click (after me having to move the
cursor off the part of the screen that I was doing my work on).
Just a quick hint that you do not need to click if you don't want to.
The secondary toolbars hover expose (or right click if you want them
instantly), in this mode they work just like any palette menu, taking
up no canvas space, forcing no canvas redraw.
I would argue your 'significant amount of XO screen real estate' is a
rather large exaggeration ;-)
Here's a quick screen shot comparison for the worst case when you have
a secondary toolbar locked open to the canvas. On a 1200x900 display,
two layers of toolbars is only an extra ~30 pixels, and you have the
choice of not locking open the secondary toolbar (especially for edit,
just use the keyboard shortcuts), gaining you an extra ~40 vertical
pixels of canvas space.
Regards,
--Gary