Toolbar icons either too small or too big - need redesign
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:59 pm
The toolbar icons in TextPad are either too big or too small. They look very old-fashioned and not particularly ergonomic.
With the right-click/ customize option, on the third tab of the dialog box that pops up, I have an option to view large icons; but the choice is between having them tiny and fiddly, or having them huge and inconvenient. Can we not have something in-between? They really do look stupid on my Windows 7 based computer with a new 23-inch 1920x1080 pixel widescreen. They look like something from the early 1990's (under Windows 3.1 or 95) and text size/ use of space is not ergonomic for my new screen (which is becoming much more common, especially for software developers.)
A new set of buttons, along with some improved routines for detecting screen resolution and automatically adjusting the user-interface defaults, would be very welcome and would make TextPad significantly more user-friendly. Granted, updating the icons might take second-place to creating Linux and Apple ports of TextPad... But it really is worthwhile, and before long this will start to make a significant difference to many of your customers.
With the right-click/ customize option, on the third tab of the dialog box that pops up, I have an option to view large icons; but the choice is between having them tiny and fiddly, or having them huge and inconvenient. Can we not have something in-between? They really do look stupid on my Windows 7 based computer with a new 23-inch 1920x1080 pixel widescreen. They look like something from the early 1990's (under Windows 3.1 or 95) and text size/ use of space is not ergonomic for my new screen (which is becoming much more common, especially for software developers.)
A new set of buttons, along with some improved routines for detecting screen resolution and automatically adjusting the user-interface defaults, would be very welcome and would make TextPad significantly more user-friendly. Granted, updating the icons might take second-place to creating Linux and Apple ports of TextPad... But it really is worthwhile, and before long this will start to make a significant difference to many of your customers.