[Geany] A new look?

[Randy Kramer]

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Randy Kramer 

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On Monday 04 April 2011 12:21:37 pm Lex Trotman wrote:
> On 5 April 2011 00:34, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> > On 04/04/11 06:55, Lex Trotman wrote:
> >> But the font size is fixed, which is no good.  To give you an
> >> idea, note in my screen shot how much extra space there is on each
> >> side compared to yours, now think how small that makes the text.
> >>  I currently use 18 point as default, but you probably wouldn't
> >> want that on your screen.
> >
> > Press Ctrl and + to zoom in :)
>
> Why should we have to do this??  Plus when you zoom most pages (in
> your list) show artifacts and/or font rendering problems.
>
> > I have a big monitor as well, and I've noticed many of the nice
> > professional sites don't scale or change the font size when the
> > browser is resized.
>
> Sadly this just proves my contention about web designers ;-)
>
> Perhaps I'm being too harsh, they are taught at design school to do
> things on a piece of paper and I understand that they consequently
> have trouble getting their heads around things that vary.  By calling
> them lazy I really mean that fixed size is much easier to design.
>
> Some
>
> > of the nice ones I've noticed lately:
> >
> > http://www.ubuntu.com/
>
> Nah, doesn't do it for me, all advertising no content & text too
> small, if I didn't know anything about Ubuntu it wouldn't sell me on
> it.
>
> > http://gitorious.org/
>
> An ingenious background that makes it look less like it is fixed
> size, and the multi column text layout is good, but again some of the
> fonts are too small
>
> > http://ground-control.org/
>
> As above but not quite so nicely designed
>
> > http://store.apple.com/ca/
>
> Shows that you can have sidebar navigation :)
>
> > http://www.libreoffice.org/
>
> This one is an interesting one, even though it has two column text
> all the text follows the default size, it isn't fixed, & I like the
> background gradient.  The overall look is clean.
> Maybe we could do something similar with one column for news the
> other for description/features/info?
>
> > I usually use only half of my monitor for the browser, which works
> > well with this style of fixed-width, centered websites that seems
> > to be all the rage.
>
> 1. NEVER confuse common with good, Microsoft anyone? :)
>
> 2. I have 12 tabs open, 8 of which are using full width.  The only
> ones that don't look too good are the GTK reference ones.  Of the
> fixed size ones, two are manuals, (all text so of course they are
> fixed width), one is news (lots of pictures, another of the reasons I
> gave for fixed size) and that leaves one other fixed size.  So I am
> not going to re-size the browser for one website.
>
> > Note also that all those examples are using the same general style
> > of "across the top" menus.  I think a lot of people look there by
> > default nowadays for the main site navigation.
>
> None of them have menus across the top, they all have 4-6 links
> across the top, which all go to other pages so you have to go to
> other pages to look for things.  I think 4-6 is too few for what we
> have to cover. Hence I advocate a sidebar which fits more.
>
> But maybe we can use the method that http://www.linuxmint.com/ uses
> where, as you mouse over the top categories the next line shows the
> subcategories, that way you can find what you are looking for without
> having to go to other pages to search for it.  Anyway its something
> to try as an alternative. It could probably re-use most of the menu
> code Pockata has already, just make the menu horizontal on the next
> line.