Re: [Usability]prefs dialog recommendation

[Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>]

Am Son, 2002-09-15 um 23.28 schrieb Havoc Pennington:
> HIG feature request: a recommendation for multi-page prefs dialog, as
> found in nautilus or Galeon
> (http://galeon.sourceforge.net/graphics/galeon2/galeon2prefs.png)
>  - a notebook as in gnome-terminal
>  - list widget on left as in nautilus
>  - tree on left as in mozilla
>  - shortcut widget thingy
>  - buttons as Galeon2 seems to have
- tree on the left as in gimp1.3

I'd prefer the following recommendation:
1 Page:
No reason to discuss anything.

2 or 3 pages:
Use a notebook

4 or more pages:
Use the gimp-tree (the code is very well readable) an the gimp
headlines. The advantage of a tree is that you are not limited in depth
(in contrast to galeon1.2 - where you were actually able to group pages
but you were not even able to have a title page - with a description of
the section for the user). It gimp-tree also benefits from the ability
to group items (which is not possible in galeon2 if i see this
correctly). The nautilus-list doesn't need many changes to look like a
gimp-tree.

this is just my opinion

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sven