Two weeks later: KDE 3.4 Control Center UI Review

[Anders Lund]

On Sunday 27 February 2005 12:09, Clarence Dang wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:31 am, Anders Lund wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 February 2005 18:03, George Staikos wrote:
> > > I wish we had a multi-level tabbar though.
> >
> > You are kidding, right? Multilevel tabbar is about the worst GUI element
> > you can come up with. A tabbar with more than 2 or 3 tabs means you
> > should reconsider what you are doing.
>
> I know this thread is about KControl but I don't think you should rule out
> multilevel tabbars outright e.g. it would make tabbrowsing in konqueror a
> lot easier when you've got many, many tabs open.

No, it would make it *harder*. Many, many tabs is fundamentally flawed, the 
tab metaphor does not hold water if you have more than a few tabs. I agree 
with the comment on using a list - suprise ;^)

-anders
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