#16 UI cleanup

[Luis Villa]

If I could suggest some UI cleanups-

* instead of 00:03 when counting down, I should see '3 seconds' or '3s'. Same-ish for the presets- show '20 minutes' instead of '00:20:00'. Makes it easier to read at a glance and figure out what is going on.

* make the 'load selected preset' button go away- just automatically load the preset when the preset is clicked. One less button is good :)

* make the minutes and seconds entries only two characters wide, since they will never be wider than that. Might do:
Hours: ___ Minutes ___ Seconds___

instead of
Hours
Minutes
Seconds

with the space saved.

If you wanted to be more ambitious, I'd suggest basically getting rid of all the right-click menu options. All those things should be accessible in one simple, clean screen, which pops up whenever the applet is clicked. *maybe* two- a second for editing the presets. Consider that a challenge :)

[Jimmy Do]

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* instead of 00:03 when counting down, I should see '3 seconds' or '3s'.

Great idea. I'll try to do this in a future release.

* make the 'load selected preset' button go away- just automatically load
the preset when the preset is clicked. One less button is good :)

You must've read my mind (or maybe I read yours). ;) It's already implemented in version 2.0.

* make the minutes and seconds entries only two characters wide, since they
will never be wider than that. Might do:
Hours: ___ Minutes ___ Seconds___

Yeah, I've considered doing that, but I thought it'd be better if the user only had to look from top-to-bottom, rather than left-to-right *and* then top-to-bottom. But since you've brought it up, I'll give it a try and see how it feels (don't know why I haven't tried it before). It'd be nice to reduce the height of the dialog.

* If you wanted to be more ambitious, I'd suggest basically getting rid of
all the right-click menu options. All those things should be accessible in
one simple, clean screen, which pops up whenever the applet is clicked.
*maybe* two- a second for editing the presets.

I completely agree. Panel applets in general are a bit flawed in that they require a right-click in order to access important features such as Preferences. I wanted the right-click menu options for consistency with how other applets behave, but you're right, I will definitely try to think of ways to avoid the right-click menu (such as Preferences).

But some of the right-click options (such as Pause/Continue and Presets) are just convenient equivalents to features that can be accessed without the right-click menus. These items were also feature requests from users, so I they'll probably stay.

Thanks for the feedback Luis.