[pygtk] About buttons in a Treeview...

[John Pye]

Just thinking about why it might be considered bad to have a bunch of
buttons in your TreeView...

>From the GNOME HIG,
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/principles-simplicity.html

> don't clutter your interface, and don't overload the user with
> buttons, menu options, icons, or irrelevant information.


There is a clear theme through the document of buttons being something
that you only ever have one or two of in any given window. For example:

>
>       Additional Buttons
>
> You can include other buttons in a dialog's main button area in
> addition to the affirmative button and Cancel, but any more than one
> or two such buttons will make the dialog appear complicated and
> difficult to use. As with any other button, keep the labels as concise
> as possible to minimize this effect.
>

Maybe that helps?

Cheers
JP


Alessandro Ferrarin wrote:

>Il mar, 2006-01-31 alle 01:01, John Finlay ha scritto:
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>>Did you think about using Labels and SpinButtons in a Table as an 
>>alternative to using a TreeView?
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>Not seriously. But then, I wonder: it's probably better to implement the
>ill-famed CellRenderButton than MyOwnTreeView...
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