Two weeks later: KDE 3.4 Control Center UI Review

[Clarence Dang]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:40 pm, Anders Lund wrote:
> 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*. 
See attachment.  I can't quickly tell which tab is which without text.  
Tooltips are too slow and clumsy.

> 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 ;^)
A normal list takes too much space.  A disappearing one is clumsy to use esp. 
if you want to see whether the other tabs have loaded yet while you are 
browsing (on my 28k connection).
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