Re: Print dialog mockup (re: tabs changing tabs sucks)

[Norm Jacobs <Norm Jacobs Sun COM>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:43 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
>  
>
> > Larry Ewing caught me on irc this morning to ask why an element in the
> > print dialog notebook widget (namely the printer list) affect the tabs
> > in the notebook itself.  I agree with him that it can be confusing and
> > the general consensus was printing dialogs suck in general. 
> >
> > I spent a couple of minutes doing a rough mockup of how we might
> > approach making it a bit better (PPD generated UI is never going to
> > become a paradise).  I'm not going to implement this since fixing the
> > internals is more important right now, but if some enterprising soul
> > wants to give it a shot (should be easy) then have at.
> >    
>
> The major disadvantage of this is that you loose a *lot* of space if you
> have to show both the settings tab and the list of printers at the same
> time always. Either the window becomes very tall, or you're constantly
> forced to scroll, both in the printer list and the settings tabs.
>  
Admittedly, I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to this right 
now
and this may have been discussed, but why not put the printers (+ status
and location if you like) in a dropdown list?

   -Norm