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Bug 37948 - Rethink the "customize" action
Summary: Rethink the "customize" action
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: guibuilder
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@guibuilder
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Depends on:
Blocks: 37943
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Reported: 2003-12-10 00:26 UTC by David-john Burrowes
Modified: 2005-05-13 17:10 UTC (History)
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Description David-john Burrowes 2003-12-10 00:26:35 UTC 
As noted in issue 37943 the notion of "customize"
is used in very inconsistent ways in the IDE.  One
of the inconsistent uses is on the GridBagLayout
node in the form editor.

It would be good to replace the "customize" menu
item with something else that is more meaningful. 
I do not know what the right alternate solution
is, however, because this particular use is pretty
unique within the IDE (I don't know anything else
which is quite like it, including all the other
layout managers).

In fact, when you think about it, the
gridbaglayout editor is one of the most useful
features of the form editor, but it is also very
hard to discover.  This might be a good oportunity
to think of an alternate design which will make
the whole layout editor more discoverable.
Comment 1 Tomas Pavek 2005-05-13 17:10:53 UTC 
"Customize Layout" action on container node seems fine to me...