[Shotwell] Icons in the sidebar

[Bruno Girin]

On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 10:23 -0700, Adam Dingle wrote:
> On 07/01/2010 07:43 AM, Sebastian Porta wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for the mockup.  This looks promising, though I've never seen a
> >> GNOME application that has the dropdown triangles on the right side where
> >> you've put them.  And to my knowledge we can't make the GNOME tree control
> >> act that way, so to implement that we might need to use a custom control,
> >> which might not work well with different themes.  Do you think you could put
> >> together a mockup that has the triangles on the left, where they are in
> >> Shotwell today?
> >>
> >> By the way, we've also considered drop shadows - this is
> >> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1304 .  :)
> >>
> >> adam
> >>
> >>      
> > Hi, Adam.
> > Thanks for the reply.
> > I put the triangles on the right because I toughed it would look better but
> > I'm not really sure about that. I based this on Nautilus Elemetary
> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/113489/nautilus-elementary.png , but I'm not a dev
> > so I don't know if it's possible (also I think that what Nautlus Elementary
> > have it's a list and not a tree).
> >    
> 
> Aha - so that's where the idea came from.  The triangles on the right 
> might be technically possible, but I'm not sure it would be easy, and I 
> don't know how well they would work with a multiple-level tree.
> 
> > Anyway, I made a new mockup with the triangles on the left as you request.
> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/113489/Shotwell2.png
> > Hope it helps.
> >    
> 
> Thanks for this latest mockup.  This is still promising, but I'm not 
> sure I like the gap between the icons and the items which don't have 
> dropdown triangles ("Fotos" and "Papelera").  So here's another idea.  
> In your mockup, rows look like this:
> 
> [icon]   [triangle]   Eventos
> 
> Maybe we could try this instead:
> 
> [triangle]  [icon]  Eventos
> 
> Then all the icons would shift one column to the right, and the 
> triangles would appear at the far left for those items which have them.  
> What do you think about that?

If the idea is just to have icons in the side bar, what about doing
exactly like Nautilus or Evolution do? I.e.:

[+/-] [icon] [title]

Which in practice just means adding the icon in between the [+/-]
control and the category title in the tree. That's probably what the
standard GDK+ tree control does when you supply an icon. And it would be
consistent with other GNOME apps.

Mockup here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8668185/shotwell.png

Bruno