GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 590889
Vertical toolbars are missing items
Last modified: 2013-04-19 14:41:18 UTC
Since screens are getting wider (not taller) and my spreadsheets tend to get taller (not wider) it would be nice if the toolbars could be switched to be to vthe left or right without loosing items. In the moment, the undo/redo and zoom buttons disappear when you switch the toolbar to the left. Similarly various items disappear from the other toolbar.
Search for visible-vertical in wbc-gtk.c
Hmm... Undo-redo really are supposed to work. Clearly they do not do so currently.
Ok, undo/redo are now visible. They do not have the drop-down menu because that would make the toolbar wider. All the other missing ones are supposed to be the ones that are too wide. We need to do something else for those.
With a widescreen monitor I would have the space for colours, undo/redo menu, zoom, etc. in a vertical toolbar. Of course I wouldn't want the font selector. Now ideally of course one would like to have a double column toolbar so that little space is wasted by double width items that could straddle both columns.
The double-column is close to a ribbon. It would be a lot of work. Shorter term, it should be possible to shrink the goffice combos not involving text (i.e., undo/redo/border/colour) to regular size. Those involving text (i.e., font/size/zoom) should just pop up something relevant when activated. Zoom, for example, can just trigger the zoom dialog.
Zoom now triggers the zoom dialog in vertical mode.
A plain font button is now available in vertical mode. (Font size is obsolete.) We are now missing only border, foreground, and background.
Border done.
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