Henrique: yeah, this frustrates me as well, but only if the window should (meaning there are some sort of srollbars present) be resizable. Then the fact it is no resizable is a bug, IMHO. On the other hand the design of Gnome Control Center is such that you should never need to resize it should always fit all the icons so that there are no scrollbars - if I am not mistaken.
You sir, rock. I was pointing this problem out before, finally someone fixes it. 3.6 will be awesome.
23 May 2012 at 15:14
Anonymous said...
Are all of these animations in GTK+? Or are they somehow specific to the System Settings? Would probably make sense to have stuff like that at the toolkit level so we can have inter-app consistency.
23 May 2012 at 15:16
maks said...
I'm wondering why wacom tablet need their own entry even if none is connected!?
800x600 displays are well and all, but that doesn't help with the 800x480 display on my first-generation Asus EeePC (which otherwise runs Gnome 3 quite smoothly, actually).
23 May 2012 at 18:54
taretti said...
What blocks you from having an animation in the window size. GNOME 3.6 is still far away, you could ask for that...
23 May 2012 at 22:45
Anonymous said...
Can animated breadcrumbs be used as a way to make menus more easy to use and touch friendly?
24 May 2012 at 00:28
Adam M. said...
Why are you getting rid of the lovely grayish toolbar? Without it, the application looks so boring.
Anyway, great work with those animations. Will it be possible to disable them in case of slow computer?
24 May 2012 at 07:21
Anonymous said...
on Planet gnome you look like T.I. as on No Mercy' cover -- looks great
24 May 2012 at 15:45
Anonymous said...
I believe that for search results transiton is not necessary since these results are just reorganized overview according to search criterion.
OK, thanks for your work.
24 May 2012 at 17:02
Anonymous said...
Thanks. I waited for this modifications since Gnome 3.2 :-)
So, on some systems with extra panels in the "Hardware" section, "System" ends up scrolled off the bottom of the window.
Why not put the "Hardware" section last, since "Personal" and "System" both should have a constant number of items?
1 June 2012 at 20:01
Brian said...
The layout fixes are a lot more appealing than the animations, which just look kind of last-decade tacky. There are useful places to put animations, but "right in the middle of the thing you're trying to use" isn't really one of them.
5 June 2012 at 16:43
While Jon McCann made changes to the System Settings UI, I was busy implementing an animated notebook, to make the switch between panels, overview and search less jarring.
Avoid scrollbars at all costs on startup (made possible by some GTK+ sizing bug fixes)
Make the default window bigger, while supporting small displays (800x600 displays should now be usable)
Bigger icons to match the Shell's overview
Better layout of search results
Animated transitions between panels, overview and search results
[Image]
Before
[Image]
After
There will most likely be more tweaks of the UI between now and the GNOME 3.6 release, which I'll make sure to let you know about.
PS: Before you ask, we cannot animate window size changes. Hopefully this will be possible in the future.
Update: Fixed a double-negative. Also note that there are some differences between my screenshots and reality, like the separators, as my system wasn't fully updated.
"System Settings shell changes"
18 Comments -
Nice. Is it still broken by https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675503 ? (I would love to test but building gnome is scary)
23 May 2012 at 13:52
Is it possible to resize the window? That's currently my biggest peeve with System Settings or any other window that has this feature disabled.
Is there any rationale for the decision to disable this feature?
23 May 2012 at 14:02
Henrique: yeah, this frustrates me as well, but only if the window should (meaning there are some sort of srollbars present) be resizable. Then the fact it is no resizable is a bug, IMHO. On the other hand the design of Gnome Control Center is such that you should never need to resize it should always fit all the icons so that there are no scrollbars - if I am not mistaken.
23 May 2012 at 14:09
Thanks Bastien, you're doing great polishing work there!
23 May 2012 at 14:11
You sir, rock. I was pointing this problem out before, finally someone fixes it. 3.6 will be awesome.
23 May 2012 at 15:14
Are all of these animations in GTK+? Or are they somehow specific to the System Settings? Would probably make sense to have stuff like that at the toolkit level so we can have inter-app consistency.
23 May 2012 at 15:16
I'm wondering why wacom tablet need their own entry even if none is connected!?
23 May 2012 at 17:37
Well done guys, great improvements.,
23 May 2012 at 18:04
800x600 displays are well and all, but that doesn't help with the 800x480 display on my first-generation Asus EeePC (which otherwise runs Gnome 3 quite smoothly, actually).
23 May 2012 at 18:54
What blocks you from having an animation in the window size. GNOME 3.6 is still far away, you could ask for that...
23 May 2012 at 22:45
Can animated breadcrumbs be used as a way to make menus more easy to use and touch friendly?
24 May 2012 at 00:28
Why are you getting rid of the lovely grayish toolbar? Without it, the application looks so boring.
Anyway, great work with those animations. Will it be possible to disable them in case of slow computer?
24 May 2012 at 07:21
on Planet gnome you look like T.I. as on No Mercy' cover -- looks great
24 May 2012 at 15:45
I believe that for search results transiton is not necessary since these results are just reorganized overview according to search criterion.
OK, thanks for your work.
24 May 2012 at 17:02
Thanks. I waited for this modifications since Gnome 3.2 :-)
25 May 2012 at 11:34
Looks nice!
30 May 2012 at 23:33
So, on some systems with extra panels in the "Hardware" section, "System" ends up scrolled off the bottom of the window.
Why not put the "Hardware" section last, since "Personal" and "System" both should have a constant number of items?
1 June 2012 at 20:01
The layout fixes are a lot more appealing than the animations, which just look kind of last-decade tacky. There are useful places to put animations, but "right in the middle of the thing you're trying to use" isn't really one of them.
5 June 2012 at 16:43