On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:05 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > - In Images mode either Folders or Catalogues mode are still active. There's > either the Folders or the Catalogues Icon in the toolbar to switch back. > And of course you browse through the contents of the Folder/Catalogue that > was selected. Ok, you've convinced me that these 3 modes are not exclusive to each other, and so shouldn't be represented that way. I'd certainly like to hear your ideas on how to layout the UI to properly show the correct relationships between the different possible views in gthumb. > > I don't like this idea at all. A tab bar will waste a significant > > amount of screen real-estate. I suppose that could be solved by putting > > the tabs inside the side panel only, however this only really makes > > sense when you use layout 1. > > Of course only inside the panel! > I see no reason why this would be a problem in any of the layouts. Okay, let's have a look at the layouts and how we might do a tab bar. Firstly, I'll argue that the thumbnails list must be grouped with the folders list, because they both show the contents of the current directory. So the contents of the notebook should hold the path entry, folders list, and thumbnails list. In the first layout, this is pretty straight forward, because these three things are all collected along the left side, so the tab bar doesn't need to extend across the whole window. However, in the other three layouts, in order to keep the grouping of folders and files, the tab bar would need to extend across the whole window, resulting in quite a bit of wasted horizontal space. I'm not sure what the best UI is for gthumb given how it works. I do know that the current UI is lacking, and I don't think a tab bar -- at least as I described it above -- is a good idea either. What are your thoughts? Or maybe I'm visualizing your ideas wrong? Jason.
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