Re: [Gretl-devel] GUI tweak
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.)
Now I'm testing something that may affect the look and feel: very
long paths for working dir. I think we could limit the size of the
visible text using "...". Take a look at the image attached. Gretl
main window is getting wider and wider and wider.
Urgh, yes, that had occurred to me but I hoped we could get away
without resorting to ellipsis. Maybe not.
Allin