Re: [Straw-devel] resurrecting scott's main window layout

[Scott Douglas-Watson]

> A few open questions: should there be a upper limit to the label height?
> Not that I know how to do it, but I guess I could try. And is the
> current arrangement OK or should the link be the last one? That way, it
> would always be in a fixed position. I don't know if it's used so often
> that it matters, though.
>  
I'd normally say put the button last, but seeing as it is also acting as 
the title label it
should probably stay at the top.

> I dropped the bar/toggle button because I thought it didn't look too
> great down there. Do people think a disclosure widget is necessary? I
> think I would go for a wide button at the bottom of the screen and an up
> arrow when it was closed, it would rise above the info and the arrow
> would point downwards when open. Buttons just eat quite a bit of
> vertical space.
>
>  
Maybe a menu option to show/hide. I really don't like wide buttons (keep 
meaning
to ask about peoples' opinions on making the subscribe to source button 
smaller).

But speaking about wasting space what about adding a frame around the info?

Cheers,
Scott