[Geany] "Replace All" button order

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Mon Jan 19 17:20:12 UTC 2009


On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:30:15 -0500, "Daniel Richard G."
<skunk at iSKUNK.ORG> wrote:

>On Sun, 2009 Jan 18 13:27:52 +0100, Enrico Tröger wrote:
>> 
>> Attached are mockups of both variants together with the necessary
>> code changes (the patches are mainly for reference).
>> 
>> I basically like both variants but would prefer the one with the
>> frame as it groups well the Replace All options together.
>
>That one looks good. The only downside I can see is that the three
>buttons are no longer perfectly aligned with the four along the
>bottom :)

This also wasn't the case before at least not for non-English locales
and if so it was just  by coincidence.


>For its part, NEdit does things the opposite way: a "Keep Dialog"
>checkbox. Any find/replace operation would be a single shot, unless
>that option is checked. So the option is grouped together with the
>other find/replace options, and not specifically associated with the
>replace-all buttons. (Not suggesting that Geany follow suit; only
>painting the rest of the picture of this other editor.)

What? Another editor? No way, can't be believe that...


>By the way, don't forget the whole button-reordering dealie! If I read

Haha.


>Nick correctly, the desire is to keep more-commonly-used operations to
>the right. And we also said that arranging the replace-all scopes in a
>sorted order made sense. Which would then imply an end result of
>session, document, selection.

Yup.


Regards,
Enrico

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