Re: [Usability] Closing instant-apply settings windows

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

Hello all,

On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Gregory Merchan wrote:

> Another, less relevant, feature of the notebooks is that they provided
> page turning devices in addition to the tabs. In versions 2 and 3 these
> were arrow buttons in the bottom right corner of each page and in version
> 4 it is a square that looks like a turning page with plus and minus signs
> placed in the top right corner. Some tabs had pages only accessible by
> this extra control which served to hide more advanced options.

One small addition here: in version 4 settings-notebooks it is also
possible to right-click on any of the tabs. A pop-up menu will appear that
provides the user with quick access to all tabs, including the ones that
drop out of the current view. The extra pages you refer to are denoted in
the pop-up menu as submenu-items of the first tab-page.

You can see a look-alike (without the popup menu feature) of this type of
settings notebook in StarOffice. Go to the Options and select OS/2-look,
and one-line colored tabs.

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