[Gimp-print-devel] Print UI design

[Roger L. <ro...@wh...>]

I like the changes that (mitsch?) made to the main window the other day,
such as the addition of a notebook.  It makes the window a bit smaller,
and cleaner.

However, I have mentioned before that I was not entirely happy with
the widget packing, especially when the windows are resized, but I
lack the GTK+ skills to describe the problem.  To make up for this,
I have created a mock-up interface in Glade (attached), which has
much nicer packing.  If you resize the different windows of the
plugin horizontally, vertically and both ways, you can see that most
of the widgets are of a fixed size, leaving huge areas of grey space.
If you try this with the glade interface, the whole thing resizes
nicely, to fill the whole screen.

Please note I'm no GTK+ expert, and this is the first time I used
glade for something.  I used glade 0.5.5, and I could not get the
labels right-aligned, and the widget spacing, borders and alignment
may not be perfect, though they seem OK to demonstrate the packing.
I also added a frame to each notebook page, but otherwise the
interfaces are identical apart from the containers/packing.

I'm not sure how feasable it is, but I can't see why the preview
widget can't be resized dynamically as the window size changes.  The
preview size could change, so you get a nice big preview if the
window is maximised, using all the space available.  The same
could be done with the Print Colour Adjust window preview also.
Since the paper size can change, and the picture resized too, I
don't think it's impossible.

Regards,
Roger

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