[Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: Using "fusion" style on OsX by default

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Cool. Let's sleep on it for a day or two and if no new objections
surface, we can choose to make the change. We can of course have an
option to change it back in Settings too, but feel it might be an
overkill since who'd actually change it.



On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
> I agree that I like the fusion style better for the same reason as Alan. In
> fact, I remember complaining several years ago about how much space was
> introduced into the GUI during some library update or another.
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> My only reservation is that the tighter style might be more off-putting to
> new users (exaggerates the airplane-cockpit syndrome). However, the current
> GUI for the Windows executable looks just as tight, and that does not seem
> to be an issue. (According to download counts, windows users outnumber Mac
> and Linux by a large margin.)
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> -Ken
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> From: Paraview-developers [mailto:paraview-developers-bounces at paraview.org]
> On Behalf Of Scott, W Alan
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 11:06 AM
> To: Bauer, Andy (External Contacts) <andy.bauer at kitware.com>; Ayachit,
> Utkarsh (External Contacts) <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
> Cc: ParaView Developers <paraview-developers at paraview.org>
> Subject: Re: [Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: Using "fusion" style on
> OsX by default
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> Assuming fusion is on the right side, I also like that better.  What is
> important is that the fonts aren’t decreasing in size.  Ditto the icons.  We
> are just tightening up empty space.
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> My $0.02
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> Alan
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> From: Paraview-developers [mailto:paraview-developers-bounces at paraview.org]
> On Behalf Of Andy Bauer
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 7:45 AM
> To: Ayachit, Utkarsh (External Contacts) <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
> Cc: ParaView Developers <paraview-developers at paraview.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview-developers] Using "fusion" style on OsX by
> default
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> I like the Fusion style a bit better. I think it would be a good idea to get
> input from somebody with poor vision.
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> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
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> Folks,
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> I wanted to see what people thought about using the "fusion" style (same in
> Linux) on OsX instead of the current OsX style used by Qt. Attached are
> screenshots compare the two styles on a Mac.
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> As you can see, "fusion" is more compact with more well aligned widgets. The
> Properties panel on both has been resized horizontally so that it is as
> minimum size possible before a horizontal scrollbar shows up. Note how wide
> it has to be with macOS style as against Fusion.
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> Utkarsh
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