GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 129757
Remove the "Available palettes" menu
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I think that the menu displaying the available palettes is overkill. Adding a palette should be allowed *only* from the Preferences dialog. Additionally, switching between palettes is something that should probably go into a submenu of the applet's main menu. Panel space is an `expensive' resource and we should avoid having shortcuts to little used features.
This bug was discussed during the UI-Review and therefore gets sucked into the umbrella bug! I'll attach a log of the relevant IRC chat. General Summary - Remove the Add Palette action from the popdown menu Reasoning for this: It was determined that the applet has a 'one time setup' usage scenario. With rapid switching between palettes. To remove the chance of selected Add Palette unintentionally during a switch we should remove it from this menu. The Palette list can be from the preferences dialog and provides a better interface for this since it is a 'one time setup' application, not a quick 'tweak as you go' type of application.
Created attachment 23297 [details] IRC Chat Log of UI-Review Mon. Jan 12th. 2004
Created attachment 23493 [details] [review] Proposed patch
2004-01-31 Dennis Smit <ds@nerds-incorporated.org> Adding patch from: 2004-01-31 Michael Terry <mterry@fastmail.fm> * charpick.c: Remove "Add a palette..." popup menu item. Fixes bug #129757 and #131887 Bug can be closed.