Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#10910 new enhancement

Menubar needed to improve DeskCalc discoverability

Reported by: xray7224 Owned by: stippi
Priority: normal Milestone: R1.1
Component: Applications/DeskCalc Version: R1/Development
Keywords: deskcalc, menubar, discoverability Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

DeskCalc has three modes: compact, basic and scientific however to find and select these options you need to right click. I wasn't aware of these options until reading the source code. I suggest the addition of a menu bar allowing for better discoverability, however we should leave the right click contextual menu inplace for those who prefer to use that.

I attempted to add a menubar using BGroupLayout however as the custom drawing means the resizing of the window breaks. I'm not yet experianced enough to convert DeskCalc to use layouts or generic widgets.

I have attached the attempt I made which shows the menubar.

Attachments (1)

deskcalc-menubar.png​ (2.8 MB ) - added by xray7224 10 years ago.
Mockup of menubar

Change History (5)

comment:1 by xray7224, 10 years ago

Component: - General → Applications/DeskCalc
Keywords: deskcalc menubar discoverability added
Owner: changed from nobody to stippi

by xray7224, 10 years ago

Attachment: deskcalc-menubar.png​ added

Mockup of menubar

comment:2 by axeld, 10 years ago

I'm not convinced that it really needs a menu bar, but given its size, it probably wouldn't hurt either (I would just leave it out in the compact mode).

Stippi probably has a stronger opinion on this one, though :-)

comment:3 by vidrep, 6 years ago

I'm of the opinion that DeskCalc ought to have a menu bar, as suggested in this ticket, with the option to hide it.

comment:4 by pulkomandy, 4 years ago

Milestone: R1 → R1.1
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