GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 169397
With text below icons, Forward button is much wider than Back
Last modified: 2012-01-29 05:41:52 UTC
mpt hehe, Epiphany has one UI bug the same as Firefox -- the Forward button is wider than the Back button, even though Back is used more often [...] mpt oh, and the Back and Forward menus come down in the wrong horizontal position mpt oh, and "Back history" and "Forward history" aren't very useful tooltips
In text-beside-icons mode, Back is priority text so here Back is a lot larger than Forward is.
The menu positioning is fixed in gtk 2.8.1. Sizing issues: need to try if we can add those 2 buttons to a size group? Making the whole toolbar homogeneous will make other buttons much too big... We can fix the tooltips after string freeze.
In the ui-review performed before the 2.14 release, the consensus was that the GNOME-wide default of text-below-icons should be revisited. Personally I prefer text-beside-icons, and then the Back button has priority text so it's bigger than Forward.
The size of the back and forward buttons can't be handled when text below icons is selected. In spanish you have 'Atrás' vs 'Adelante', the difference is pretty obvious if you put that on a button, it can't be fixed because you can't fix all the world languages and words :) Also I don't have any tooltip in my buttons so I guess they were removed or my GTK+ is broken :P. I would say NOTABUG if the tooltips issue is already fixed.
Why can't we make the Back button larger, regardless of the text on the button?
Because we would get reports about a back button bigger than forward button :). It would be a matter of trying.
Internet Explorer versions 4 to 6 made all "Button Bar" buttons as wide as the widest one. For example, if you added the "Encoding" button, all the other buttons would widen slightly, because the word "Encoding" was the widest of any of the (built-in) buttons. It helped the toolbar look less clumsy than Netscape's, and I never saw anyone complain about it. (The tooltip issue appears to have been solved by removing all toolbar tooltips, so narrowing this bug report to the button widths issue.)
For reference, the toolbar tooltips haven't been removed, but GTK bug 347637 is preventing them from being displayed.
There will be no more 2.18.x releases; moving bugs off of that target milestone.
Christian: Want me to try and implement the size group for those buttons?
Sure :) You'll need to add the toolbar items to the size group when they're inserted into the toolbar, but afaik there's no signal emitted when toolbar items are added (on GtkToolbar). However you could add that signal to EggEditableToolbar (from which EphyToolbar inherits).
No longer have text!