GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 91344
Toolbar icon buttons should have minimum width
Last modified: 2005-02-26 14:48:26 UTC
There should be a minimum width for a toolbar icon button, otherwise buttons like "Up" and "Back" in Nautilus become too narrow which is a serious usability issue. I would suggest that the minimum width should be the height of the button like in Galeon(1). I received this mail from bordoley@msu.edu: "This is a bug in bonobo. There has been a little discussion on the correct way for this to be done, and i believe the current consensus is that there should be a minimum width for buttons so that you do not have the problem you described below, while buttons with longer labels are allowed to be wider. I think a bonobo ui bug may already be open, but if not file one please." and couldn't find an already existing bug for it.
*** Bug 94620 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 97360 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
copying relevnat comment(s) from bug 94620 See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74372 (make Up button same size as the Back/Forward)
copying relevant comment(s) from bug 97360 The button area should be at least as wide as it is high, possibly wider. As well as looking better, Slightly larger buttons will help usability (Fitts Law). To help illustarte my point in inlcude screenshots of Windows explorer and Mozilla, and you will notice that even thought the text labes are very short the button area is still at least as wide as it is high. ------- Additional Comments From Alan 2002-10-31 14:23 ------- Created an attachment (id=11941) Windows explorer toolbar, notice the button area is quite wide Created an attachment (id=11942) oops, the first one was the mozilla toolbar, this is in fact the microsoft windows explorer toolbar and agian the button area is at least as wide as it is high
there is and always has been a minimum_width tag (of some sort) in the UI xml - this was removed since someone re-hashed the forward/back drop-downs in nautilus to be separate buttons which would have made the UI look really odd. I hope they're now back together in a single control - either way this is a nautilus bug.
The buttons don't resize AFAICS. Close this?
Nautilus no longer uses the bonoboui toolbar, and the buttons seem to have an equal, fixed width now.