Re: [Gretl-devel] GUI tweak
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017, Henrique Andrade wrote:
> Em 2017-07-13, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti escreveu:
>
>> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>>
>> Another refinement in the working dir dialog: a button to open workdir in
>>> the OS's file manager. Not yet tested on Windows or Mac.
>>>
>>
>> Very nice. Just what I had in mind. One question: why BLUE? Is that a
>> tribute to OLS?
>
> :-) I think the reason is to give user a sense of clickable feature.
Yes, blue text meant hyperlink back in the days of NCSA Mosaic. (For
youngsters, the first generally available web browser, circa 1994.)
Ah, the days of yore. I just commited a small change in that direction.
Now the workdir string is blue AND underlined. Feel free to ditch the
change if you don't like it.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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