[bt-devel] next steps

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

Gary Holmlund wrote:
> The config settings dialog should be done for now. The resizing of the
> Display page is working.
>   

I hate to trouble you even more with this, but I'm still not satisfied.

First, the whole config dialog has still the outer margins removed. It 
should look the same than the Bookself Manager, i.e. has the default 
margins.

Second, the font preview area doesn't actually need more space when the 
dialog is resized. It's the font chooser which needs it because it has 
many items in the scroll area. Now it's so short by default that it's 
impossible to scroll with the scrollbar indicator - it doesn't move at 
all (it may be style/resolution depended but so it is here). It should 
have taller initial size - 5 or 4 lines would be good - and it should 
expand. Also, if at all possible, the size chooser should have initial 
width of e.g. two M's. (We have a helper function in CToolClass which 
calculates the width of M for the current widget font - I think it's 
much better for many situations than using pixels directly.) The font 
name chooser should get the extra space because it may have very wide 
text in it. Now a horizontal scrollbar takes even more vertical space 
from it so that it has only two lines visible.

You removed some text from the bookname language selector. Now when I 
think it, this may be better. It was a technical detail which we have 
wanted to show to users, maybe mostly because we don't control the 
language collection and the text would direct the users to the Sword 
project. However, it doesn't actually help and is a bit irrelevant. We 
can live without it.

Again, I'm sorry to bother you with same things, but I will let nothing 
which may be uncomfortable or unpleasant for users creep in. Usability 
and high quality of UI is very important to us.

Anyways, your work is also very important to us. Your presence also 
motivates me to work harder, so it has double the good effect. Keep that 
in mind when I complain something...

--Eeli Kaikkonen