GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 400423
subdivide the stock icons combobox widget into multiple columns
Last modified: 2007-01-25 02:47:21 UTC
glade3 has a lot of usability improvements, but one thing still makes me scream every time I have to use it: the stock icons selector. When I create a stock button and click the combobox to select which stock icon I want to assign, the list is eight times the height of my screen. I usually end lost in that list, scrolling is very slow and it becomes very frustrating finding icons. I noticed in glade3 that GTK allows subdividing comboboxes into columns. Glade should use this to display more stock icons at once, requiring less scrolling and making a more efficient use of horizontal space. What do you think? Other information:
We are working on the stock-item selection problem, but we don't intend to use combo-boxes at all though. We are going to use dialogs instead. Recently, I created a named-icon chooser dialog, which allows a user to edit any icon-name properties on a widget in a very usable way. I intend to modify the dialog to support stock icons, and I think this can be ready quite soon. Check out #359640 for more details on this dialog. If you want to, please give any input or opinions you have.
I actually love what I saw so far in #359640, so I'm marking myself this bug a duplicate of it :) looking forward to see this! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 359640 ***